I like a man who grins when he fights.

Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their character. Reflecting on the outcome of World War I, and an ominous future.

We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.