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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

Douglas MacArthur

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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Beauty Courage Covered Heard Hope Indeed Long Massage Snow Young
Americans never quit.
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Country never Quit
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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Become Done Life Matters Really Soul Suppose Symbol Way
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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Fear Government Kept Perpetual State
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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Again Almighty Country Forec God Grace People Person Return Soil Stand
I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.
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Address Bitterness Country Fade Life Neither Purpose Rancor Twilight
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
War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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Indecision Object Prolonged Substitute Very Victory War
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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Color Deathless Elusive Essense Outfit Sash Soldier Soon Took Unique
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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All Best Luck Make Yourself
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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Country Die Dream Long Part People Person Young
The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
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Advance Civilization Force Great Greatest Mount Outward Question Sermon Since War World
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
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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Action Become Integrity Intent Leader Set
Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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Broken Hide Lazy Made Mostly Ofen Rule
Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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