From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has either been exterminated by us or - better still - torn to pieces by the German people themselves.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

If you're going to walk through hell, keep going.

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.