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.

I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.

A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.

In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness? The answer must be clear and unequivocal if we are to avoid the pitfalls toward which we are now heading with such certainty. In many respects it is not to be found in any dogma of political philosophy but in those immutable precepts which underlie the Ten Commandments.

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.