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

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.

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.

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.

Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.

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

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