...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.

My tastes are simple. I like only the very best.

My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.

We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

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.

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.