Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.

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.

The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.