Defensive Strategy Never Has Produced Ultimate Victory.

The Object And Practice Of Liberty Lies In The Limitation Of Government Power.

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.

Freemasonry Embraces The Highest Moral Laws And Will Bear The Test Of Any System Of Ethics Or Philosophy Ever Promulgated For The Uplift Of Man.

No Army Has Ever Done So Much With So Little.

History Fails To Record A Single Precedent In Which Nations Subject To Moral Decay Have Not Passed Into Political And Economic Decline. There Has Been Either A Spiritual Awakening To Overcome The Moral Lapse Or A Progressive Deterioration Leading To Ultimate National Disaster.