Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian, Bulgarian, Austrian and German home fronts fell to pieces before their armies collapsed.

Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.