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.
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
There is no substitute for victory.
In war there is no substitute for victory.