After A Time, Civil Servants Tend To

I Liked Wine, Both Red And White, And Especially Champagne; And On Very Special Occasions I Could Even Drink A Small Glass Of Brandy.

Historians Are Apt To Judge War Ministers Less By The Victories Achieved Under Their Direction Than By The Political Results Which Flowed From Them. Judged By That Standard, I Am Not Sure That I Shall Be Held To Have Done Very Well.

The Only Traditions Of The Royal Navy Are Rum, Sodomy And The Lash.

We Would Rather See London Laid In Ruins And Ashes Than That It Should Be Tamely And Abjectly Enslaved.

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.