Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I understand it, of organizing the American offensive against Japan, a primary objective of which is the relief of the Philippines. I came through and I shall return.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.