How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

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.

There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission - a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he will find greatness. It is his finest hour.

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.