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

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

No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.

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

In all our long history we have never seen a greater day than this.

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose