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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.

Douglas MacArthur

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Whatever your years, there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.
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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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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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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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Substitute Victory War
Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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Die Fight Know Men Without
In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.
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Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
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Before Bring Dear Despair Die Doubt Down Dust Enemy Ground Slowly Turn
I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
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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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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea – written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo – “There is no substitute for victory!”
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Beachhead Country East Every Far Idea Red Send Single Sole Thought Written
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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