The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise.