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In war there is no substitute for victory.

Douglas MacArthur

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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
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Condition Form Mold Opinion Present Press Propaganda Public Support Tremendously Under Wage
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
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
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
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Demand Dund Evil Exorbitant Furnishing Happen Quite Real Terrible
Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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Key Preparedness Success Victory
No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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Encounter Enemy Ever First Plan Survive
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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Earth Only Opportunity Security
Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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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
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
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All Bear Deepest Other Peace People Pray Scar Soldier Suffer War
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
I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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Almighty Country Forever God Grace Return Soul Stand
We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
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Advance Design Endure Goal Leadership Must Open Peace Progress Universal World
In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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Indeed Substitute Victory War
The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.
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Beach Complete Deep Done Entire Journey Life Silent Symbol Thousand Wear World
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
Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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Cause Unprotect War Wealth
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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Again Battlefield City Crash Dream Gun Here Mournful Mutter Rattle Strange
A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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Curse Die End Goran Growl Soldier Sweat
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
The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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Country Countrymen Honor Live Safety Soldier Untruthful
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
Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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Execute Good Plan Today Violently
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
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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Asai Basic Become Blind Concordance Condition Country Course Destiny Evolutionary Last Own People Policy Purse Situation
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
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
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Concern Force Great Insidious Nation Security Work

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