It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

I would rather he had given me one more division

It's better for one to die than for all of us to be killed in a shooting affray. Anyway, we've practically no ammunition.

Good soldiers, bad officers; however don't forget that without them we would not have any Civilization.

I didn't die nor win.

There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.

Manstein is a man of illusions. He believes Hitler will listen to facts.

Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?

The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.

Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they?

Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.