I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?

Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.