The choice is between acting with energy or losing by default.

What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be

As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.

If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy.

The price of peace is eternal vigilance

I find it hard even now not to look on your North African strategy with a jaundiced eye. Cross Channel operations for the liberation of France and advance on Germany, we should finish the war quicker. Yes, probably, but not the way we hope to finish it.

No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan.