Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

The present war has revised all military theories about the field of fire … The question to be solved … is the actual getting across of 100 or 200 yards of open space and wire entanglements.

What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the battle of Britain is about to begin.

What a slender thread the greatest of things can hang by.

I was very glad that Mr Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

We must be careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations.

... [F]iring got so hot that my grey pony was unsafe ... I remained till the last and here I was perhaps very near my end ... I was close to both officers when they were hit almost simultaneously and fired my revolver at a man at 30 yards who tried to cut up Poor Hughes' body. He dropped but came on again. A subaltern -Bethune by name and I carried awounded sepoy for some distance and might perhaps, had there been any gallery, have received some notice. My pants are still stained with the mans blood... I felt no excitement and very little fear. All the excitement went out when things became really deadly ... I rode on my grey pony all along the skirmish line where everyone else was lying down in cover. Foolish perhaps - but I play for high stakes and givenan audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

Keep cool, men! This will be interesting for my paper!