You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.

I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.

Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I shall have some other motive for taking chances than merely "love of adventure".

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

Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.

The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.