Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.

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

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.