The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.  

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging. 

 Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better. 

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. 

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. 

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. 

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement. 

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. 

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure. 

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice. 

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. 

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst. 

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. 

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. 

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. 

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

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. 

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. 

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. 

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. 

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. 

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. 

 India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator. 

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.