For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

You must look at facts, because they look at you.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.