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The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice.

Douglas MacArthur

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
He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
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Action Become Integrity Intent Leader Set
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
Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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Execute Good Plan Today Violently
Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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Broken Hide Lazy Made Mostly Ofen Rule
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
Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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Brain Die Grip Lose never Old Reality Require Soldier Traumatic
The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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Ability Destructive Inescapable Liberty Preserve
Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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Die Fight Know Men Without
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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Earth Only Opportunity Security
“Duty, Honor, Country” – those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
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Be Country Dictate Duty Hollow Home Ought Reverently Thre
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
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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Attempt Courage Forget Make Master Ourselves Predominance Timidity
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
The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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Many May Oth Palin West Point Times Turn World
So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away
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