"Lloyd George had the firm support of Milner, the strongest man in his War Cabinet."

""Churchill was 'very keen, able, and broad-minded' and a 'powerful backer', but warned that his weakness was being 't…"

"British influence... is not exercised to impose an uncongenial foreign system upon a reluctant people. It is a force …"

"[I]f Egyptian prosperity is a British interest, so is Egyptian independence. We have no desire to possess ourselves o…"

"I have a strong hope and conviction that, with moderation and good sense, and a policy of firmness, patience and good…"

"There is only one possible settlement – war! It has got to come ... The difficulty is in the occasion and not the job…"

"If, ten years hence, there are three men of British race to two of Dutch, the country [i.e. South Africa] will be saf…"

"...the impracticability of governing natives, who, at best, are children, needing and appreciating just paternal gove…"

"If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and to dam…"

"Milner....is the strongest member of the War Cabinet as well as being the best informed."