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By profession I am a soldier and take 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.

Douglas MacArthur

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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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Substitute Victory War
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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History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
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It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past…
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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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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A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.
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Americans never quit.
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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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I came through and I shall return.
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
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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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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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Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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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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The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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