The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks.

Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.

A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government