And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

There's no such thing as a good tax.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.