The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.

There can be no revival of Europe without a spiritually great France and a spiritually great Germany.

There are two supreme obligations which rest upon a British government. They are of equal importance. One is to strive to prevent a war, and the other is to be ready if war should come.

Almost the whole world is locked in deadly struggle, and with the most terrible weapons which science can devise the nations advance upon each other.