Horatio Bottomley

"Well, damn it all, it's only sixpence, I know, but I suppose he has to begin somewhere."

"I have not had your advantages, gentlemen. What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life."

"No, reaping."

"Bottomley...was a genial rascal and took the line that people who were fools enough to be duped by his swindles deserved all they got."

"Since war is a vulgar business it was right that the leading unofficial recruiter should have been the greatest vulgarian of the day. Horatio Bottomley, editor of John Bull, was sufficiently moved by the spirit of 1914 to inform his friends that he was making a complete break with his 'sordid past'. His ambition was to be Director of Recruiting, preferably with a seat in the Cabinet, but he was tactfully assured by Asquith that he would be more use to the country in an unofficial capacity. The public who cheered the patriotic speeches of the People's Tribune were unaware of the high fees he received for delivering them (between £50 and £100 a meeting, sometimes more)."