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.

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path.

I am writing in one of the Keepers' Lodges to wh I have returned after stalking & where I am waiting for the Prince of Wales. Quite the best day's sport I have had in this country - 4 good stags & home early!

How often in life must one be content with what one can get!

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.