There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise.

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.

Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

You know, in war, you don't have to be nice. You only have to be right.

The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.