"Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride."

"It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing."

"More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them."

"My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion."

"At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity."

"The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes."

"We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations"