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.

Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.

It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. Here I might leave my bones.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.