it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

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.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.

Things do not get better by being left alone.

No sky is heavy if the heart be light

The arts are essen­tial to any com­plete national life. The State owes it to itself to sus­tain and encour­age them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the rev­er­ence and delight which are their due.