TOPICAL SAYINGS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 127, 31 December 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

TOPICAL SAYINGS.

GREAT few&iTJ'S'lN FEW ' WORDS. For an; small nation to tfirow in its lot with the Huns is sheer suicide.— Robert Blatchford. # * # * Our duty must not be measured by what others do, but what we can do. — Mr. Ellis Griffiths, M.P. # * * * All that is required l of us in these grim and yet glorious days is that we should face facts—Mr. Birrell. ♦ '»'*« I hare been through a large part rf France, and hare not seen a man of military age not in uniform. —Bishop of Birmingham. # # # * The determination of the Fren?h 1o cut Prussia out of Europe like a cap* cer is among the spiritual forces of this war. —Hillaire Belloc. # # # * I am sorry for the poor, innocent, unborn Germans. It twill take tuem hundreds of years to regain the habit of telling the truth.—Mr. James Douglas. # ♦ # # Do not let us go carping ai rur admirals and generals and the Government. It is our business to help them in every way in our power, so long as they do their duty.—Lord Haldane.

For many years after the war the modern Hun will crawl about the world as I have seen a pariah dog in India, homeless and friendless, and shunned by everyone.—Mr. Arthur Priestly, M.P.

We are now at this moment engaged in weaving all over the world the ''winding sheet," as we trust, of the most famous conspiracy that has ever been known against the liberties of mankind—Lord Roseberry.

* * # * The fashion now in Germany is to drive nails into the statues of German generals. But we have improved upon that, for we are driving nails into the coffin of German militarism and amotion.—Mr. W. O'Mallcy, M.P. I mmssssss ■ - ' m