The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they?

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.

I would rather he had given me one more division

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.

He [Hitler] seemed very depressed and upset about the Stalingrad disaster. He said that one is always liable to look on the black side of things after a defeat, a tendency which can lead one into dangerous and false conclusions.