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The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Douglas MacArthur

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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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Our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?
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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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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions – those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.
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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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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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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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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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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin.
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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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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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