Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

No one ever came to grief-except honorable grief-through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them; unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die.

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.

We Shall come through! We cannot tell when, we cannot tell how, but we shall come through.

These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.