"While you may have your initial success, due to timing and surprise, the time will come when you too will have your losses, but there will be this great difference. You will not only be unable to make up your losses, but will grow weaker as time grows on, while on the other hand we will not only make up our losses but will grow stronger as time goes on. It is inevitable that we will crush you before we are through with you."
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Speaking to Japanese ambassador Nomura before the attack on Pearl Harbor. As quoted in Louis Morton, The War in the Pacific. Strategy and Command: The First Two Years (1962) p. 125
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Harold Raynsford Stark
Harold Raynsford Stark (November 12, 1880 – August 20, 1972) was an officer in the United States Navy during World War I and World War II, who served as the 8th Chief of Naval Operations from August 1, 1939, to March 26, 1942.
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