I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.

We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.

Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.

Without victory there is no survival!