# Quote — Winston Churchill, The Second World War: Closing The Ring

> 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. I could not foretell the course of events. I do not pretend to have measured accurately the martial might of Japan, but now at this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder.

- Author: [Winston Churchill](https://www.leafyquotes.com/winston-churchill.md)
- Book: [The Second World War: Closing The Ring](https://www.leafyquotes.com/winston-churchill/the-second-world-war-closing-the-ring.md)
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