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

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.

If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.

I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

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

A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.