I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of India, upon the people of Great Britain and upon the British Empire itself.

I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.

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

It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State

How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.

The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress....Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud....Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.