Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURNobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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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.
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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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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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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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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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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can’t get away this time!
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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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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
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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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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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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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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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