Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.