Old Soldiers Never Die; They Just Fade

Talk Of Imminent Threat To Our National Security Through The Application Of External Force Is Pure Nonsense. Our Threat Is From The Insidious Forces Working From Within Which Have Already So Drastically Altered The Character Of Our Free Institutions - Those Institutions We Proudly Called The American Way Of Life.

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.

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.

We Have Had Our Last Chance. The Problem Now Is Basically Theological, And Involves Spirituality And Improvement Of Human Character. It Must Be Of The Spirit If We Are To Save The Flesh.

By Profession I Am A Soldier And Take Great Pride In That Fact, But I Am Prouder, Infinitely Prouder, To Be A Father. A Soldier Destroys In Order To Build; The Father Only Builds, Never Destroys. The One Has The Potentialities Of Death; The Other Embodies Creation And Life.