Under a more heroic Minister, and in a less self-seeking age, it is probablethat England would have preferred the risk, whatever its extent, to the infamy of betraying an ally whom she had enticed into peril. But our Ministry is not heroic; and our generation, though not indifferent to glory, prefers it when it is safe and cheap.

-of Salisbury
  On Palmerston's failure to defend Denmark against Prussia, in the Quarterly Review,  Jul.

Of all tyrannies in history, the Bolshevik tyranny is the worst, the most destructive, the most degrading. Every British and French soldier killed last year was really done to death by Lenin and Trotskyönot in fair war, but by the treacherous desertion of an ally without parallel in the history of the world.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Speech, London,11  Apr.

   Time is the101st Senator†the ally of the people who want to do nothing.

-Dodd, ChristopherJ
  On the difficulty of passing President Clinton's health programme when legislators were longing for the holidays. In the NewYork Times, 26  Aug.

England is a great and powerful nation, foremost in human progress, enemy to despotism, the only safe refuge for the exile, friend of the oppressed. If ever England should be so circumstanced as to require the help of anyally, cursed be the Italian who would not step forward with me in her defence.

-Garibaldi, Giuseppe
  Letter,12  Apr.

But what is Dust, SaveTime's most lethal weapon, Her faithful ally and our sneaking foe?

-Sitwell, Sir (Francis) Osbert
  'Mrs Southern's Enemy'.