Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

If tonight our people were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of cities, the overwhelming majority would cry, "We will mete out to them [the Germans] the measure, and more than the measure, that they have meted out to us... We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best."

I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.