I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be in the same jail.

One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.

To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

I would rather he had given me one more division