Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment - and yet - I can't help it - I enjoy every second of it.

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.

In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.