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".

I love learning, but hate being taught.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions.

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

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.