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Words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them. Reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal ally; prudent hesitation, specious cowardice; moderation was held to be a cloak for unmanliness; ability to see all sides of a question, inaptness to act on any. Frantic violence became the attribute of manliness; cautious plotting, a justifiable means of self-defence. The advocate of extreme measures was always trustworthy; his opponent a man to be suspected. To succeed in a plot was to have a shrewd head, to divine a plot a still shrewder; but to try to provide against having to do either was to break up your party and to be afraid of your adversaries.

I am more afraid of our own blunders than of the enemy's devices.

I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire...

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

" war is a matter not so much of arms as of money,"

Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch, their renewal of life, this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the Ten Commandments.

It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disaster to discuss the matter.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

In...the book of Egoism, it is written, possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.