Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-- the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.

If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.

You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.

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

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

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