You ask, What is our policy? I will say; "It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy." You ask, what is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.

Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don’t believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.

I shan’t be taking my wife with me to Paris. You don’t take a sausage roll to a banquet.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to persuade my wife to marry me.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.