I find it hard even now not to look on your North African strategy with a jaundiced eye. Cross Channel operations for the liberation of France and advance on Germany, we should finish the war quicker. Yes, probably, but not the way we hope to finish it.

Don't fight the problem, decide it.

Discussions without end have been devoted to the subject of peace, and the efforts to obtain a general and lasting peace have been frequent through many years of world history.

The price of peace is eternal vigilance

The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

I can't expect loyalty from the army if I do not give it.