"Certainly no general [Slim] ever did more with less; in every way, he was one of the great captains."

"For some reason which escapes me, there seems to be a feeling now that we have a moral duty to interfere in foreign d…"

"That political correctness should have become acceptable in Britain is a glaring symptom of the country's decline."

"To learn the age-old lesson day by day: It is not in the bright arrival planned, But in the dreams men dream along th…"

"I must emphasise that at private soldier level you frequently have no idea where you are, or precisely how you got th…"

"...a reluctance to recognise that today's safety and comfort were bought fifty years ago by means which today's intel…"

"You cannot, you must not, judge the past by the present; you must try to see it in its own terms and values, if you a…"

"I never said, and don't believe, that all Germans are Nazis. I'm just pretty sure that they're all Germans, and that …"

"...only those who have been really dry know that there is no drink like chaggle water, brackish, chlorinated, with a …"

"...the standard arm was the most beautiful firearm ever invented, the famous short Lee Enfield.......She's a museum p…"