It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past.

How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.

What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.