During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.

Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.

Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth

...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.

I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.

We Shall come through! We cannot tell when, we cannot tell how, but we shall come through.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.