The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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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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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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I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.
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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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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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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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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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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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Americans never quit.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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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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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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