The final words of Douglas MacArthur's final address to a joint session of the United States Congress.
Address to US Congress. Public domain.
"The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away."