England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile intention? We should sink to the level of a fifth rate Power, our Colonies would be stripped from us, our commerce would decline, famine and unemployment would stalk the land... I have yet to learn that the cause of peace can be served by rendering our country impotent.

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.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

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

Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

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.