Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.

In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny. What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support - not imperious direction - the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.

I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.

In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.