We’ve all seen those supposedly terrifying pictures of grim German soldiers. We can beat those unsmiling automatons. We are going to lick them with cheerful young Canadians, quick thinking lads who know how to take it. The accent is on youth.

(Quoted in Star Weekly, 18 Oct 1941, 28)

I consider Dieppe was well worthwhile, as we learned a lot about what not to do. Out later successful landings in North Africa, Italy, etc. could scarcely have been carried out without it. Had we been allowed to have two old battleships or cruisers, Dieppe might have been a very different story.

(Quoted in Brantford Expositor, 17 Dec 1962, 1)