To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURNo army has ever done so much with so little.
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Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
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No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea – written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo – “There is no substitute for victory!”
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It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.
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Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away
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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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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.
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