I Have Never Promised Anything But Blood,

Do Not Turn The Superior Eye Of Critical Passivity Upon These Efforts .... We Must Not Be Ambitious. We Cannot Aspire To Masterpieces. We May Content Ourselves With A Joy Ride In A Paint-box.

When They Told Me That By The Year 2100 Women Would Rule The World, My Reply Was 'still?'

Good Night, Then - Sleep To Gather Strength For The Morning. For The Morning Will Come. Brightly Will It Shine On The Brave And True, Kindly On All Who Suffer For The Cause, Glorious Upon The Tombs Of Heroes. Thus Will Shine The Dawn.

My Ability To Persuade My Wife To Marry Me Was Quite My Most Brilliant Achievement ... Of Course, It Would Have Been Impossible For Any Ordinary Man To Have Got Through What I Had To Go Through In Peace And War Without The Devoted Aid Of What We Call, In England, One's Better Half.

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... Europe And Large Parts Of Asia And Africa Became One Vast Battlefield On Which After Years Of Struggle Not Armies But Nations Broke And Ran. When All Was Over, Torture And Cannibalism Were The Only Two Expedients That The Civilized, Scientific, Christian States Had Been Able To Deny Themselves: And They Were Of Doubtful Utility.