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

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.