Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.

Two nations divided by a common language.

I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.