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.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native resource. The Geological Survey had identified the inflammable oil shale in reports since at least 1888.]

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

Never give in, never! Be it concerning large things or small things, never, never, never!

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.