Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless of whether it is in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest.

You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

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.