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

Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.

One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization.

If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it.

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.

I would rather he had given me one more division

The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo