Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

(In war) the latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile-hoping it will eat him last.

We shape our buildings: thereafter they shape us.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.

It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.