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.

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

[President Roosevelt] devised the extraordinary measure of assistance called Lend- Lease, which will stand forth as the most unselfish and unsordid financial act of any country in all history.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

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

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.