Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.

I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory - a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.

My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.