"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."

"A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding."

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

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

"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."

"Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."

"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."

"I got politics and economics moving and then others took over."