I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are?

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.

One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.