Mayling Soong’s address at New York City Hall:

               If we thought we were fighting alone, if we thought we were fighting only for China, to be very frank with you, China would not be the China of today, but would have been a conquered China. But we realized that justice will prevail and that the people of America knew and realized what was at stake. Perhaps I can best illustrate to you what I mean by a little story. More than two thousand years ago, in the reign of Tsin-Shi Wang, the emperor who built the Great Wall, there were continually overflowing, and causing death and destruction to many thousands of people in that part of the country. The emperor sent a very high official to build dykes to prevent the floods. The official failed and he paid the final penalty for his failure. The emperor sent a second high official. The second official also failed. He too paid the final penalty. Finally he sent a third man, this man succeeded and high honors were bestowed upon him. When I visited the spot last year with Generalissimo, we found three graves there. I asked, “Why are there three graves?” and I was told, “these are the graves of three men, the two who had attempted to make the dyke and failed, and the third who succeeded.” I asked why was the third man buried with the other two. And the reply was that when the third official succeeded and honors were bestowed upon him, he declined the honors and killed himself because, he said, he could not profit himself by the price others had paid with their lives. I feel that American people have the same highmindedness. They would not benefit from the price anyone else had paid for liberty or freedom. This highmindedness, this integrity, this feeling that we shall suffer with others, and together work and strive for a common cause, constitute the common meeting ground for your people and mine.

In Mayling’s Chicago address:

               There are peoples and nations who are yet bent on tramping underfoot the inalienable rights and diginity of men. They have not the eyes to see that over the blue horizon, beyond the smoky ruins following in the wake of the bursting bombs, there is a vision of a new world – a world founded on practiced justive and equality for all mankind.

Mayling’s speech before the House of Representatives:

               The 160 years of traditional friendship between our two great peoples, China and America, which has never been marred by misunderstandings, is unsurpassed in the annals of the world. I can also assure you that China is eager and ready to co-operate with you and other peoples to lay a true and lasting foundation for a sane and progressive world society which would make it impossible for any arrogant or predatory neighbor to plung future generations into another orgy of blood.

               In the past, China has not computed the cost to her manpower in her fight against aggression, although she well realized that manpower is the real wealth of a nation and it takes generations to grow it. She has been soberly conscious of her responsibilities and has not concerned herself with privileges and gains which she might have obtained through compromise of principles. Nor will she demean herself and all she holds dear to the practices of the market place. We in China, like you, want a better world no for ourselves alone but for all mankind, and we must have it. It is not enough, however, to proclaim our ideals or even to be convinced that we have them. In order to preserve, uphold and maintain them, there are times when we should throw all we cherish into our effort to fulfill these ideals even at the risk of failure.