Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose
Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.
In war, truth is often the first casualty.
Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.
With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century