Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to entertain the Premier.

Machine guns are taken through grit and determination.

As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary from accompanying a wounded man back from the firing line.

Perhaps that was a thing about attractive women: A rejection demanded their respect, made them trust you more.

I could never be your godAnd I don't even think I want the job anymore

The seventh gift is Talent. May you discover your own special abilities and contribute them toward a better world.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.

It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

I hate anyone who beats me.

Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to preserve nerves; we can't see where they are.

Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.

The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...