My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly.

[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.

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.

Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.

Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.