Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.

When a new book appears one should read an old one.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

He who fails to plan is planning to fail.

Nature will not be admired by proxy.

My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.