In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.

I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us. Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.

Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.