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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.

Douglas MacArthur

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
Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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Give never Obeyed Orde
Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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Defense Produce Strategy Ultimate Victory
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
Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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Key Preparedness Success Victory
In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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Indeed Substitute Victory War
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
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
Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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Afraid Die Fit Live
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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Automatic Encounter Mightier never Obviously Pen Sword Weapon
In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
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Both Enormous Mutual Side Suicide Wage War
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 soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
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Act Highest Men Offer Perform Religious Require Sacrifice Soldier
No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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Encounter Enemy Ever First Plan Survive
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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Against Brave Conspiracy Constant World
While 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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Asia Broad Company Country Impact Other Referred
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 inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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Ability Destructive Inescapable Liberty Preserve
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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Decay Economical Fail History More Nation Pass Political Precedent Record Single Subject
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
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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Application Extremal Force Imminent Nation Nonsense Security Talk Threat
We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
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Abound Arm Change Great Longer Nowhere Past Profession
You are remembered for the rules you break.
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Break Remember Rule
Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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Die Fight Know Men Without
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
In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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Employing Irrevocable Other Penalities Personnel Profession Untrain World
Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
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Back Distrust Doubt Growing Head Self Spirit Worry Year

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