We Have A Lot Of Anxieties, And

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.

It Is One Thing To See The Forward Path And Another To Be Able To Take It. But It Is Better To Have An Ambitious Plan Than None At All.

Those Who Can Win A War Well Can Rarely Make A Good Peace And Those Who Could Make A Good Peace Would Never Have Won The War.

He Sees With Amazement That Our Defeats Are But The Stepping Stones To Victory And That All His Victories Are Stepping Stones To Ruin. It Was Apparent To Me That This Bad Man Saw Quite Clearly The Shadow Of Slowly And Remorselessly Approaching Doom, And He Railed At Fortune For Mocking Him With The Glitter Of Fleeting Success.

The Unnatural And Increasingly Rapid Growth Of The Feeble-minded And Insane Classes, Coupled As It Is With Steady Restriction Among All The Thrifty, Energetic And Superior Stocks Constitutes A National And Race Danger Which Is Impossible To Exaggerate. I Feel That The Source From Which The Stream Of Madness Is Fed Should Be Cut Off And Sealed Before Another Year Has Passed.