I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.

I'm finished ... I'm done. What I want above all things is to take some active part in beating the Germans ... I'd go out to the Front at once.

Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were well-disposed, 'put up a show' some day.

We will mete out to the Germans the measure and more than the measure that they have meted out to us. We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst and we will do our best.

I never worry about action, but only about inaction

It becomes still more difficult to reconcile Japanese action with prudence or even sanity. What kind of people do they think we are?