One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURDuty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
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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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To master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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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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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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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.
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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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The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
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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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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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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.
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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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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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