"No army has ever done so much with so little." General DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, as reported by The New York Times, April 11, 1942
"The time has come when we must proceed with the business of carrying the war to the enemy, not permitting the greater portion of our armed forces and our valuable material to be immobilized ....." General GEORGE C. MARSHALL, Army chief of staff, as reported by the Washington, D.C., Times-Herald, March 3, 1942
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." Isoroku Yamamoto