May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.

Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.