TOPICAL SAYINGS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 156, 17 March 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

TOPICAL SAYINGS.

GREAT THOUGHTS IN FEW WORDS. You can always withstand evil if you hate » lie.—Mr." Eden Phillpotts. * * * Whenever merit is found, merit should be promoted. —Mr. Balfour. * * * * As far as commerce is concerned, Germany is a beaten nation. —Mr. Runciman.

A premature or an inconclusive peace would be as disastrous as the war itself.—Mr. John Hodge, M.P.

* * * * In no war and in no country have the wounded been better looked after than our wounded havo been. Lord Derby.

t There are only three things that degrade the courage of the people—falsehood, indolence, r.nci lack ot icb.i s. — Mr. Alex. M. Thompson.

; There is only one great infallible in diplomacy as well as in and that is to keep one's promises.—Mr. Theodore Roosevelt.

The word "home" is sacred o the English heart, and we want the notues our men have left behind to oe worth coming back to when peace arrives. - .The Bishop of Lincwi.

Tf we win through this war, and the Empire is saved, it wi'l be by the courage and devotion of British fight-ing-men, and despite our j>olitieians. Sir George Makgill.

I am convinced that after the war the people of this country will not bo prepared to resume trading relations with the Germans on the conditions which existed before the war.—Sir J. Walton, M P.

' The notes of the Empire as found in Canadian poetry are three —love of the now }iom<o, Canada, love of the old home England; love and loyalty to •the vast whole which unites both—the Emipre itself. — Sir Herbert W alien. * * *

\fter rears of work the Committee , of* Imperial Defence in preparing for war produced a war book which was ot the utmost value. I would like to see a neace hook of the same kind prepared in much the same way hy a small Commit too or K°. va ' Commission, which would tell each department of the Stale ■ind each bodv ot emp'oyers and of labour just what they are expected to do when peace comes.--Lord Haldane.