A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. Americans never quit. In war there is no substitute for victory. Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within. I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander. I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

In war, you win or lose, live or die-and the difference is just an eyelash.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

No man is enitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty. Goodbye.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Last, but by no means least, courage - moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

You are remembered for the rules you break.