In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.

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.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

I came out of Bataan and I shall return!

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.