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.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.