We cannot afford to see Nazidom in its present phase of cruelty and intolerance, with all its hatreds and all its gleaming weapons, paramount in Europe at the present time.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

It is much better to be frightened now than to be killed hereafter.

Air power may either end war or end civilization.

So we have had to dispense with the indispensable.