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

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

Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired.

We do not war with races primarily as such. Tyranny is our foe. Whatever trapping or disguise it wears, whatever language it speaks, be it external or internal, we must for ever be on our guard, ever mobilized, ever vigilant, always ready to spring at its throat. In all this we march together. Not only do we march and strive shoulder to shoulder at this moment, under the fire of the enemy on the fields of war or in the air, but also in those realms of thought which are consecrated to the rights and the dignity of man.

Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.