The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

You gotta have some balls to be a female PM in England

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.

We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none too well. Some things that ought to be done have not yet been done...[But Britain's effort has] justly commanded the wonder and admiration of every friendly nation in the world.