“I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.”

“I Shall Return”

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

“I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.”

“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any treat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.”

“People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil—soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples. We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.”

“Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away”