Nothing Should Be Done For Spite's Sake.

Indeed I Do Not Think We Should Be Justified In Using Any But The More Sombre Tones And Colours While Our People, Our Empire, And Indeed The Whole English-speaking World Are Passing Through A Dark And Deadly Valley.

There Is At Least One Thing Worse Than Fighting With Allies - And That Is To Fight Without Them

Dictators Ride To And Fro Upon Tigers Which They Dare Not Dismount. And The Tigers Are Getting Hungry.

Never, Never, Never Believe Any War Will Be Smooth And Easy, Or That Anyone Who Embarks On The Strange Voyage Can Measure The Tides And Hurricanes He Will Encounter. The Statesman Who Yields To War Fever Must Realize That Once The Signal Is Given, He Is No Longer The Master Of Policy But The Slave Of Unforeseeable And Uncontrollable Events.

I Should Have Liked To Be Asked To Say What I Knew. They Always Tried To Ask What I Did Not Know. When I Would Have Willingly Displayed My Knowledge, They Sought To Expose My Ignorance. This Sort Of Treatment Had Only One Result: I Did Not Do Well In Examinations