8 quotes
There is always a strong case for doing nothing, especially for doing nothing yourself.
The World Crisis (1923)
Eaten bread is soon forgotten. Dangers which are warded off by effective precautions and foresight are never even remembered.
The World Crisis (1923)
Jellicoe was the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon.
The World Crisis (1923)
He was a cut flower in a vase; fair to see, yet bound to die, and to die very soon if the water was not constantly renewed.
The World Crisis (1923)
The choice was clearly open: crush them with vain and unstinted force, or try to give them what they want. These were the only alternatives, and though each had ardent advocates, most people were unprepared for either. Here indeed was the Irish spectre — horrid and inexorcisable.
The World Crisis (1923)
An infected Russia, a plague-bearing Russia; a Russia of armed hordes not only smiting with bayonet and with cannon, but accompanied and preceded by swarms of typhus-bearing vermin which slew the bodies of men, and political doctrines which destroyed the health and even the souls of nations.
The World Crisis (1923)
Arabs would have sat in the dark forever had not the Zionist engineers harnessed the Jordan river for electrification. Now they swarm into Palestine in seeking the light. (1922)
The World Crisis (1923)
Great Britain could have no other object but to use her whole influence and resources consistently over a long period of years to weave France and Germany so closely together economically, socially and morally, as to prevent the occasion of quarrels and make their causes die in a realization of mutual prosperity and interdependence.
The World Crisis (1923)