Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting out point for invasion.

I'm so bored with it all.

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.