We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.

Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.

Great and good are seldom the same man.