War is horrible, but slavery is worse.

Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked.

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash the paint about so freely that your words cease to have any real meaning and cease to carry any sense of affront even to those to whom they are applied and cease to bear any connection with any genuine feeling of indignation on the part of those on whose behalf they are spoken.

You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.

Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears.

When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'