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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Douglas MacArthur

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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Act Highest Men Offer Perform Religious Require Sacrifice Soldier
We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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Advance Another Direction Retreat
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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Action Become Integrity Intent Leader Set
“Duty, Honor, Country” – those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
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Be Country Dictate Duty Hollow Home Ought Reverently Thre
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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Decay Economical Fail History More Nation Pass Political Precedent Record Single Subject
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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Awake Decline Game Joy Life Nation Political Record Spiritual Subject
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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Appeasement Blackmail Instance Mean Peace Shame Successfully Violence
The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
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Interplanetary Nation Next Unite War World
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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Better Blood Carriage Earnest Emerge Form Hope Indeed Mankind Occasion Out Past Shall Solemn World
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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Basically Chance Have Human Improvement Involve Last Problem Spiritual
Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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Give never Obeyed Orde
We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
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Advance Design Endure Goal Leadership Must Open Peace Progress Universal World
In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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Indeed Substitute Victory War
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
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Bear Day Field Fields Friendly Fruit Other Seed Sown Strife Victory
I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.
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Cause Confidence Courage Ever Joint Modern Require Something Success Ultimate Willingness
Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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Always God Let Peace Pray Preserve Restore World

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