Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.

The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.

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

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.

The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.