We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.

Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.

War is horrible, but slavery is worse.

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.