It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.

The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits

An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.

I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.

I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.

Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were well-disposed, 'put up a show' some day.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.