Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.

The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.

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.

It's better for one to die than for all of us to be killed in a shooting affray. Anyway, we've practically no ammunition.

There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.

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