Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men? What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

War would end if the dead could return.