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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.

Douglas MacArthur

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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.
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Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?
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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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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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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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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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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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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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Americans never quit.
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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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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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