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Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Douglas MacArthur

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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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Beachhead Country East Every Far Idea Red Send Single Sole Thought Written
Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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Conquer Fitpino Give Soldier Thousand World
Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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Cause Unprotect War Wealth
Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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Beginning Men Peace Since Sought Time
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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Bear Day Field Fields Friendly Fruit Other Seed Sown Strife Victory
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. A new era is upon us.
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Back Bitterness Both Defeat Excitation Known Learn Triumph Turn
The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice.
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Above Greatest Other Practice Religious REquired Sacrifice Soldier Training
Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
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Any Bear Down Ecer Embrace Ethics Freemasonry Highest Law Philosophy Promulgated System Test Upifit
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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Bad Command General Good Just Make Troop
The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
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Act Highest Men Offer Perform Religious Require Sacrifice Soldier
Whatever your years, there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.
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Awake Decline Game Joy Life Nation Political Record Spiritual Subject
Our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?
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Course Freedom Liberty Maintain Progress Religion Reverse Socialism Youth
For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.
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Down Given Institute Knock REquired Substitute Those Victory
Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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Execute Good Plan Today Violently
In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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Employing Irrevocable Other Penalities Personnel Profession Untrain World
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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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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Always God Let Peace Pray Preserve Restore World
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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Bed Before Believe Ever Good Ner Reach Right Sir Try World
In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny.
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I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.
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Alternative Apply Available End Even Force Mean Swift Upon War
No army has ever done so much with so little.
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Army Done Ever Little Much So
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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Back Distrust Doubt Growing Head Self Spirit Worry Year
We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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Advance Another Direction Retreat
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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Earth Only Opportunity Security
I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
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