Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
From Winston Churchill
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
History is written by the victors.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
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.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
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