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

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

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. 

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

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

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. 

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. 

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. 

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.  

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. 

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. 

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. 

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

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

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. 

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. 

The price of greatness is responsibility. 

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. 

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. 

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. 

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.  

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. 

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.