The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I understand it, of organizing the American offensive against Japan, a primary objective of which is the relief of the Philippines. I came through and I shall return.

We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.

The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.

I am of Virginia and all my professional life I have studied of Lee and Jackson

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.