Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

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

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

I'm bored with it all. Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.

This movement among the Jews is not new... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing... It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.