The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

• Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
• Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
• Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
• In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
• I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
• Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
• 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.
• It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
• The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
• The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.