Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.

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

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always old age. Even those masters and princes of aerial fighting, the survivors of fifty mortal duels in the high air who have come scatheless through the War and all its perils, have returned again and again to their love and perished too often in some ordinary commonplace flight undertaken for pure amusement.

The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose.