There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.

Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.

It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash the paint about so freely that your words cease to have any real meaning and cease to carry any sense of affront even to those to whom they are applied and cease to bear any connection with any genuine feeling of indignation on the part of those on whose behalf they are spoken.

Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.