A Joke Is A Very Serious Thing.

It Cannot In The Opinion Of His Majesty's Government Be Classified As Slavery In The Extreme Acceptance Of The Word Without Some Risk Of Terminological Inexactitude.

My Only Consolation For The Failure Of The Dardanelles Was That God Wished Things To Be Prolonged In Order To Sicken Mankind Of War, And That Therefore He Had Interfered With A Project That Would Have Brought The War To A Speedier Conclusion.

It Is Never Possible To Guarantee Success, It Is Only Possible To Deserve It.

The Enemy Is Still Proud And Powerful. He Is Hard To Get At. He Still Possesses Enormous Armies, Vast Resources, And Invaluable Strategic Territories...no One Can Tell What New Complications And Perils Might Arise In Four Or Five More Years Of War. And It Is In The Dragging-out Of The War At Enormous Expense, Until The Democracies Are Tired Or Bored Or Split That The Main Hopes Of Germany And Japan Must Reside.

Great And Good Are Seldom The Same Man.