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.

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.

The Chinese soldier was tough, brave, and experienced. After all he had been fighting on his own without help for years. He was a veteran among the Allies.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

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

Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general.

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