“I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.”

“Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.”

“There is no substitute for victory.”

“Life is a lively process of becoming.”

“A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.”

“Americans never quit.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Like the old soldier of the 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 light to see that duty. Goodbye.”

“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.”

“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.”