In war there is no substitute for victory.

• The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
• I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
• In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
• A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
• It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
• Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
• Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
• 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.
• Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
• I am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.