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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURWhile Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.
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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil-soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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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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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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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
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History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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