Desperately ill, he rose to speak only at the prodding of his hosts.

"I suppose you wish to know what I am going to say to President Roosevelt on my return. Well, I’m going to quote you one verse from that Book of Books* in the truth of which Mr. Johnston’s mother and my own Scottish mother were brought up:" [And here he looked directly down the table at his president's counterpart.]

Whither thou goest, I will go;
And where thy lodgeth, I will lodge;
Thy people shall be my people;
And thy God, my God.

He paused, and then as he sat down, said, barely audibly,

"Even to the end."

Harry Hopkins; remarks to Winston Churchill and British officialdom, North British Station Hotel, Glasgow, Scotland, January 17, 1941.


*The quotation is from the Old Testament, Ruth 1:16, to her mother-in-law,

And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave 
thee, or to return from following after thee: for
whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou
lodgeth, I will lodge: thy people shall be my peo-
ple, and thy God my God.