If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.

The true guide of life is to do what is right.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

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