I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas... I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes... It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gases: gases can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you

There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.