Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.