Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.

In the days and in the years that are to come we shall work for a just and honorable peace, a durable peace, as today we work and fight for total victory in war. We can and we will achieve such a peace.

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.