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.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

I myself find waiting more tiring than action.

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past.

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

Without ships, we cannot live.