History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.

Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

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

There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.