There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is the hush of fear. Listen! No, listen carefully, I think I hear somethingyes, there it was quite clear. Dont you hear it? It is the tramp of armies crunching the gravel of the paradegrounds, splashing through rain-soaked fields, the tramp of two million German soldiers and more than a million Italiansgoing on maneuversyes, only on maneuvers!

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

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

There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.

The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish.