Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.

With integrity, nothing else counts. Without integrity, nothing else counts.

They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.