An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.

I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.

Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct the past to suit the present views and feelings of the writer the other is a natual desire to set his own part in affairs in a pleasing light.

The lamps are going out all over Europe we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology.

The ideal Government minister may well be someone who has no itch to run other people's lives.

If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.