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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.

Douglas MacArthur

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On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
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Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.
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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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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.
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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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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 by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
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Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb… he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
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