No American will think it wrong of me if I proclaim that to have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy. I could not foretell the course of events. I do not pretend to have measured accurately the martial might of Japan, but now at this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder.

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.

I never slept as soundly as the night following Pearl Harbor. For I knew that The American Race would now be entering the war and it would never be the same.

Jellicoe was the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon.

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.

I am trying to marshal all the forces I can to prevent this coming war, and to strengthen Britain.