Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms.
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Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest.
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To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound
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When my journal appears, many statues must come down.
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I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me.
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An age and a faith moving into transition, the dinner cold and new-baked bread a failure,
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We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers.
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Habit is ten times nature.
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The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
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Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
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Something is about to happen. Leaves are still. Two shores away, a man hammering in the sky. Perhaps he will fall.
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We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.
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