In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.