A nation that forgets its past has no future.

Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress....Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud....Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest.

One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend, it would be the cause of the British Empire in India ... Our fight is hard. It will also be long ... But win or lose, we must do our duty. If the British people are to lose their Indian Empire, they shall do so with their eyes open.