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Do Not Turn The Superior Eye Of Critical Passivity Upon These Efforts .... We Must Not Be Ambitious. We Cannot Aspire To Masterpieces. We May Content Ourselves With A Joy Ride In A Paint-box.

When Iraq Becomes Strong Enough In Our Opinion To Stand Alone, We Shall Be In A Position To State That Our Task Has Been Fulfilled, And That Iraq Is An Independent Sovereign State. But This Cannot Be Said While We Are Forced Year After Year To Spend Very Large Sums Of Money On Helping The Iraqi Government To Defend Itself And Maintain Order.

Sure I Am Of This, That You Have Only To Endure To Conquer. You Have Only To Persevere To Save Yourselves, And To Save All Those Who Rely Upon You. You Have Only To Go Right On, And At The End Of The Road, Be It Short Or Long, Victory And Honor Will Be Found.

You See These Dictators Up On Their Pedestals, Surrounded By The Bayonets Of Their Soldiers And The Truncheons Of Their Police. They're Afraid Of Words And Thought. ... They Make Frantic Efforts To Bar Our Thoughts And Words. ... A State Of Society Where Men May Not Speak Their Mind - Where Children Denounce Their Parents To The Police - Where A Businessman Or Small Shopkeeper Ruins His Competitor By Telling Tales About His Private Opinion. Such A State Of Society Cannot Long Endure If It Is Continually In Contact With The Healthy Outside World.

I Have Benefited Greatly From Criticism, And At No Time Have I Suffered A Lack Thereof.