[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.

Watch your character for your character is your destiny.

Air power may either end war or end civilization.

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'