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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.

Douglas MacArthur

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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Entirely Grow Life Live Mind Nearly Nobody Number Old State Time Year Youth
I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
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Flagpole See Stand Still
There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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Foxhole No
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
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
The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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Achivevmnet Country Effort Grandeur Greatest History Mark Military Scale
Never ask age of a woman.
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Age Ask never Woman
The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice.
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Above Greatest Other Practice Religious REquired Sacrifice Soldier Training
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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Fact Father Great Infinitely Price Profession Prouder Soldier Take
The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
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Advance Civilization Force Great Greatest Mount Outward Question Sermon Since War World
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
You are remembered for the rules you break.
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Break Remember Rule
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
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
They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
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Bay Die Hard Savage Wolf Wond
Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.
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Against Blank Cartridge Danger Head Hurt Mob Over Person Use Volley

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