I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account.

Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

You must look at facts, because they look at you.

Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.