Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

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.

The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.

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