The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.