Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of the day. However everybody seems delighted - so there is nothing to be said. No plans, no enterprise, no struggle to aid the general cause. Just sit still on the spacious throne and snooze.

There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.