[Seahawk]

The three volume set of the Last Lion is essential reading.

As is A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Churchill.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.

And My favorite given the time and place:

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour!”