There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.

The reservist is twice the citizen.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... 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.'