Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUROld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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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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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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Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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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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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
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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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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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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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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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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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