Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.

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".

It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.

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.

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.

It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.