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War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

Douglas MacArthur

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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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 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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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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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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WE 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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

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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.
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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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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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Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
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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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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
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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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