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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.

Douglas MacArthur

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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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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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Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
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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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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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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
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There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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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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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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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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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 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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