How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.

In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.