Every Garden Presents Innumerable Fascinating Problems.

There Is No Sphere Of Human Thought In Which It Is Easier To Show Superficial Cleverness And The Appearance Of Superior Wisdom Than In Discussing Questions Of Currency And Exchange

The Navy Can Lose Us The War, But Only The Air Force Can Win It. Therefore Our Supreme Effort Must Be To Gain Overwhelming Mastery In The Air. The Fighters Are Our Salvation . . . But The Bombers Alone Provide The Means Of Victory. . . . In No Other Way At Present Visible Can We Hope To Overcome The Immense Military Power Of Germany.

If The British Empire Is Fated To Pass From Life Into History, We Must Hope It Will Not Be By The Slow Process Of Dispersion And Decay, But In Some Supreme Exertion For Freedom, For Right And For Truth.

If You're Not A Liberal At Twenty You Have No Heart, If You're Not A Conservative At Forty, You Have No Brain.

History's Villains Are More Easily Recognized In Retrospect. In An Article Published In 1935 And Reprinted In 1937, Winston Churchill Expressed A Curious Ambivalence Towards The German Chancellor Prior To The Outbreak Of War: We Cannot Tell Whether Hitler Will Be The Man Who Will Once Again Let Loose Upon The World Another War In Which Civilization Will Irretrievably Succumb, Or Whether He Will Go Down In History As The Man Who Restored Honour And Peace Of Mind To The Great Germanic Nation. . . .