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.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?'

One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend, it would be the cause of the British Empire in India ... Our fight is hard. It will also be long ... But win or lose, we must do our duty. If the British people are to lose their Indian Empire, they shall do so with their eyes open.

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.