H. G. Wells

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.