Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death - the seas bear only commerce - men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.

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

We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.

Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.

Beware not the enemy from 'without' but the enemy from 'within'.

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.