When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.

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.

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

Nothing is more important in war than unity in command. When, therefore, you are carrying on hostilities against a single power only, you should have but one army acting on one line and led by one commander.

The most powerful deterrent to war in the world today lies in the retaliatory power of our Strategic Air Command and the aircraft of our Navy. They present to any potential attacker who would unleash war upon the world the prospect of virtual annihilation of his own country.