You do your worst, and we'll do our best.

The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.

You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.