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

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.

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

I came out of Bataan and I shall return!

There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.

I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.

From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea - written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo - "There is no substitute for victory!"