No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.