Once you are so unfortunate as to be drawn into a war, no price is too great to pay for an early and victorious peace.

We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory.

In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Good Will.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.

You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.