Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
War is horrible, but slavery is worse.
Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were well-disposed, 'put up a show' some day.
Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.