Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party