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

The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.

I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

Many will tell you with mockery and ridicule that the abolition of war can only be a dream . . . But we must go on or we will all go under. And the great criticism that can be made is that the world lacks a plan that will enable us to go on . . . We must have sufficient imagination and courage to translate the universal wish for peace - which is rapidly becoming a universal necessity - into actuality.

Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed