[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

If you wanted nothing done at all, Balfour was the man for the job.