My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.

Unpunctuality is a vile habit.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.

England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.

The only guide to man is his conscience.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges