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

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.

Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.

The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, God save the Queen; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister.