Eating words has never given me indigestion.

The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were well-disposed, 'put up a show' some day.

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.

In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.