Nothing should be done for spite's sake.

Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

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

By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.

A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.