Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

Nothing should be done for spite's sake.

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

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

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.