Sublime

No army, however brave, can win when its generals are weak.

Shackleton was concerned. Of all their enemies—the cold, the ice, the sea—he feared none more than demoralization.

Eisenhower told Mountbatten that mutual respect and confidence among the senior commanders was the most important ingredient in achieving allied unity.

Churchill’s position after 1914, as a still very young (forty) senior minister, turned on his vastly greater knowledge of naval and military commanders than that possessed by any of his ministerial colleagues – except for Kitchener. But this was by no means a clear advantage. It bred jealousy at least as much as friendship.

In one of the most notable statements of modern history, the remarkable UK prime minister Winston Churchill called for the New World, “with all its power and might,” to step forth “to the rescue and the liberation of the old.” Franklin Roosevelt, arguably the greatest president in American history, heeded that call. The industrial power of the

It has been said that the difference between Hitler’s speeches and Churchill’s speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.

“It is a strategic error to place oneself in a situation contradictory to the moral character of this war,” de Gaulle reminded Churchill.