“It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days, first to show how easily the tragedy of the Second World War could have been prevented; how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous...”

“The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.”

“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.”

“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?”

“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?”

“You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.' - To Neville Chamberlain”

“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”