Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.

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.

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

Nothing should be done for spite's sake.