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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURMen since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice.
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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Whatever your years, there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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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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Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb… he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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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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