When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.

If you're going through hell, keep going

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.

I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.

Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash the paint about so freely that your words cease to have any real meaning and cease to carry any sense of affront even to those to whom they are applied and cease to bear any connection with any genuine feeling of indignation on the part of those on whose behalf they are spoken.