For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Watch your character for your character is your destiny.

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

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.