We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.Collection: Strong
Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.Collection: Power
The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.Collection: War
If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.Collection: Strong
We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.Collection: War
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.Collection: Happy Birthday
Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.Collection: Greatness
The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.Collection: Army
When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.Collection: War
There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.Collection: Illustration
At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.Collection: Birthday