The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.

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.

When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!

I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.