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"Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields."
"We are weakened and we are tired, but we are not done yet."
"Can a nation remain healthy, can all nations draw together in a world whose brightest stars are film stars?"
"If you're going to walk through hell, keep going."
"I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable."
"Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms."
"There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten."
"The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish."
"We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?"
"The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into the hearers."
"Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever darkened and stained the pages of history. Behind them ... gather a group of shattered States and bludgeoned races: the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians -- upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend, unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall."
"You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great."
"Lobbyists are the touts of protected industries."
"It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State"
"Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity."
"Watch your character for your character is your destiny."
"At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender."
"I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I been happier every year since I became a man. But this interlude of school makes a somber grey patch upon the chart of my journey. It was a unending spell of worries that did not then seem petty, and of toil uncheered by fruition; a time of discomfort, restriction and purposeless monotony."
"All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message."
"An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means."