Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.

May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride.

No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.