"The groans of the dying and the blanched set faces of the dead ... were enough to drive away all unwholesome feelings…"

"History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels."

"The war was fought throughout and ultimately won, not only by the usual military weapons in the narrower sense, but b…"

"The grand success of the British Empire depends not on its having followed any constitutional precedent of the past b…"

"At the vital moment there seems to be a failure of leadership, and also a failure of the general human spirit among t…"

"I view it as a thoroughly bad peace – impolitic and impracticable in the case of Germany, absolutely ludicrous in the…"

"It was the human spirit itself that failed at Paris. It is no use passing judgments and making scapegoats of this or …"

"If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the who…"

"You cannot defeat Russia. Napoleon learned this to his cost and so will the rest of the world. I do not know whether …"

"... the Jameson Raid was the real declaration of war."