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.

You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.

It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.