Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.