Now… we have a new experience. We have victory – a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.

You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory – victory at all costs, victory in spite of terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

I must tell you that in spite of all our victories a rough road lies ahead. What a shame it would be, and what a folly, to add to our load the bitter quarrels with which the extreme socialists are eager to convulse and exploit these critical years. For the sake of the country and of your own happiness I call upon you to march with me under the banner of freedom towards the beacon lights of national prosperity and honour which must ever be our guide.

The German war is … at an end … [A]lmost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us … Advance, Britannia! Long live the cause of freedom! God save the King!

We must be careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations.

For defeat there is only one answer … victory.

Once you are so unfortunate as to be drawn into a war, no price is too great to pay for an early and victorious peace.

No American will think it wrong of me if I proclaim that to have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy… So we had won after all!

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.