Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us.

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.