
Letter to his wife shortly before the Battle of Iwo Jima.
His last radio transmission to the Japanese military headquarters.
Letter to his wife shortly before the Battle of Iwo Jima.
James Soong (2015) cited in " Soong apologizes for his role in Martial Law era http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/08/22/2003625919/1" on Taipei Times, 22 August 2015
Radio message to Imperial Japanese Army's vice chief of staff.
Letter to Steve Hodge.
1990s
Source: Letters from Abu Ghraib (2008), pp. 71-72.
“Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.”
Garantissez-moi de mes amis, écrivait Gourville proscrit et fugitif, je saurai me défendre de mes ennemis. ("Defend me from my friends," wrote Gourville, exile and fugitive, "I can defend myself from my enemies.") — Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan, Considérations sur l'esprit et les moeurs (1788): "De L'Amitié." Sénac de Meilhan was quoting Jean Hérault, sieur de Gourville (1625 - 1703).
The remark has often been attributed to Voltaire and to Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars.
Misattributed
Apology issued July 29, 2006 for his behavior and comments during the incident with his drunk driving and speeding. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5230480.stm
Minute (1 June 1940) in response to the Foreign Office's suggestion that preparations should be made for the evacuation of the Royal Family and the British Government to "some part of the Overseas Empire", quoted in Martin Gilbert, Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill, 1939–1941 (London: Heinemann, 1983), p. 449
The Second World War (1939–1945)