“It was strange how fear had gone,now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side.”

“When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.”

“We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.”

“This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a screaming line of steel runs through the heather of no-mans-land, and the holiday-maker c...”

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”

“The secret belongs only to the Maker of good and faithful dogs.”

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

“Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.”

“Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.”