We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.

The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.