I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness... We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that... Do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.

Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.

It is bad for a nation when it is without faith.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some affairs for mutual and general advantage. I do not view the process with any misgivings. I could not stop it if I wished. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands, and better days.