In war there is no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURWE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight.
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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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No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
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The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
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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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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil-soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
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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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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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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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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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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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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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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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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support – not imperious direction – the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.
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