Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

We cannot kill or capture our way out of an industrial-strength insurgency.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.