"People talk a lot about picking out targets and bombing them, individual small targets – in the European climate? I’v…"

"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody …"

"We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly i…"

"I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. …"

"I never engaged in these idiotic pamphlet-dropping exercises. They only served two purposes really - they gave the Ge…"

"The feeling, such as there is, over Dresden, could be easily explained by any psychiatrist. It is connected with Germ…"

"At the start of the Second World War, there were still some questions, at least on the Allied side, about what consti…"

"I pray to God the Scottish King do deceive me, but I am afeared he will not. For my own part, I have made of the Fren…"

"Here are six guineas for you. Do not hack me as you did my Lord Russell. I have heard that you struck him three or fo…"

"The cruel girls we loved Are over forty. Their subtle daughters Have stolen their beauty; And with a blue stare Of co…"