They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.

I'm finished ... I'm done. What I want above all things is to take some active part in beating the Germans ... I'd go out to the Front at once.

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?

The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks.

Watch your habits, they determine your character.