Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

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.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.

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

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

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.