Where every step is fraught with grave consequences and with real peril to the cause, deliberate and measured action is not merely prudent, but decent.

With Russia smashed, Britain's last hope would be shattered. Germany will then be master of Europe and the Balkans.

We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.

Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.