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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history’s clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war.

Douglas MacArthur

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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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Door Even Knock Open Opportunity Seat
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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Continuous Fear Government Kept Patriotic Perpetual Size Stampede State
He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
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Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
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Although Bring Civilization Discovery Lesson Profound Progressive Reach Survival War
We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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Advance Another Direction Retreat
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.
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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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Foxhole No
Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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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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Appeasement Blackmail Instance Mean Peace Shame Successfully Violence
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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I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.
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Cause Confidence Courage Ever Joint Modern Require Something Success Ultimate Willingness
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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Enter Fatal Key War Will Win Without
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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Community Control Dedicate Destroy Enemy Foundation People Restore Task Vestige
Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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Die Fight Know Men Without
Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight.
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Ended Great Gun Silent Today Tragedy
No army has ever done so much with so little.
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Army Done Ever Little Much So
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
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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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Against Brave Conspiracy Constantly World
Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?
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Going Institution Integrity Morality Permit Private Public Reestablish Standard
Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
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Accurate Except Five Good Intelligence Isolate Only Percent Report Trick
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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There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
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Anything Complete Defeat Fraud History Humanity Incident led Peace
If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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Divison First Marine More War Wine
Americans never quit.
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Country never Quit
To master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.
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Attempt Courage Forget Make Master Ourselves Predominance Timidity
Security lies in our ability to produce.
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Ability Lies Produce Security

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