Wars, both civil and foreign, I undertook throughout the world, on sea and land, and when victorious I spared all citizens who sued for pardon. The foreign nations which could with safety be pardoned I preferred to save rather than to destroy.

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.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

[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.

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

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