Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.

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.

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace...military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn have failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness of war not blots out this alternative.

The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.

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

The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.