Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits

Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their character. Reflecting on the outcome of World War I, and an ominous future.

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.