In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

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.

Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.