Leadership is of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision.

Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, it was the Australians who first broke the invincibility of the Japanese army.

Leadership is of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision.

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.

For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions.

There are no bad regiments, there are only bad officers.