You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?

The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

Ideas more than once have prevailed against naked power. Guns and aircraft alone do not make a state powerful. Unless force is backed up by the will of the great body of people it loses its meaning.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.