Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought.

During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.

The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.

Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.

I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.