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

We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.

I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory - a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

You know, in war, you don't have to be nice. You only have to be right.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.