Ah, horrible war, amazing medley of the glorious and the squalid, the pitiful and the sublime, if modern men of light and leading saw your face closer, simple folk would see it hardly ever.

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

All the greatest economists, John Stuart Mill at their head, have always spoken of the evils of borrowing for the purposes of war, and have pointed out that as far as possible posterity should be relieved and the cost of what is consumed in the war be met at the time. That is a counsel of perfection, but nobody has ever come nearer to it than the late Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Kingsley Wood].

Once you are so unfortunate as to be drawn into a war, no price is too great to pay for an early and victorious peace.

I would rather have a peace-keeping hypocrisy than straightforward, brazen vice, taking the form of unlimited war.

In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Good Will.