We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

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

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.