The prospects for peace were, "even blacker than a year ago". - Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner

I feel more sure that the end is nearing than I do what kind of end it will be.

Instead of it (World War I) being a war to end wars - it (the Paris Peace Conference) is a Peace to end Peace.

British influence... is not exercised to impose an uncongenial foreign system upon a reluctant people. It is a force making for the triumph of the simplest ideas of honesty, humanity, and justice, to the value of which Egyptians are just as much alive as anybody else.