John Buchan Quotes
If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing
The eyes were of a color which he could never decide on, afterwards when he told the story he used to say they were the color of everything in Spring.
Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each other's throats, and outraging the good earth which God had made so fair a habitation.
When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.
It was strange how fear had gone, now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for.
It is a melancholy fact which exponents of democracy must face that, while all men may be on a level in the eyes of the State, they will continue in fact to be preposterously unequal.