We are going to get it in the neck before seven or eight months have passed, and if you want to know the truth, Hebblethwaite, that's why I have taken a risk and ordered these ships.

The navy is my care, and it's my job to see that we keep it up to the proper standard.

Whose votes rob me of my extra battleships?
Why, just a handful of Labour men and Irishmen and cocoa Liberals, who haven't an Imperial idea in their brains, who think war belongs to the horrors of the past, and think they're doing their duty by what they call 'keeping down expenses.' Hang it, Hebblethwaite, it's worse than a man who won't pay fire insurance for his house in a dangerous neighbourhood, so as to save a bit of money! What I've done I stick to.

Split on me, if you want to." "I don't think I shall do that," Hebblethwaite said, "but honestly, Wyatt, I can't follow you in your war talk.

We got over the Agadir trouble.