Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the |
War is a catalouge of blunders. |
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. |
Wars are not won by evacuations. |
We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years. |
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage. |
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out |
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty |
We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes. |
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle |
We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often. |
We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often. |
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. |
We have sustained a defeat without a war. |
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. |