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.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

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

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

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