The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.

Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he make mistakes, they must be covered. If he sleeps, he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good, he must be pole-axed.

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?