It is bad for a nation when it is without faith.

Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.