I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.

There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.

May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.