"Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices."
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Isoroku Yamamoto, letter to Ryoichi Sasakawa, as quoted in At Dawn We Slept (1981) by Gordon W. Prange, p. 11.
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