In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.

I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account.

The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.