Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

If you travel the earth, you will find it is largely divided into two classes of people-people who say 'I wonder why such and such is not done" and people who say "Now who is going to prevent me from doing that thing?"

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.