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I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

Douglas MacArthur

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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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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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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
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War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn’t send me enough of them.
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
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The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
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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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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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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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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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