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've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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.
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any treat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
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.
In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber so long as it receives messages of beauty hope cheer and courage so long are you young.
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey...