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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

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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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Ability Destructive Inescapable Liberty Preserve
Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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Defense Produce Strategy Ultimate Victory
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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Away Die Face Just never Old Soldier
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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Earth Only Opportunity Security
For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.
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Down Given Institute Knock REquired Substitute Those Victory
In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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Indeed Substitute Victory War
In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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Employing Irrevocable Other Penalities Personnel Profession Untrain World
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
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All Bear Deepest Other Peace People Pray Scar Soldier Suffer War
The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can’t get away this time!
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Away Behind Enemy Front Left Tight
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.
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Interest May Skin Soul Wrinkle Year
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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Address Bitterness Country Fade Life Mind Neither Purpose Rancor Serve Twilight
Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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Give never Obeyed Orde
In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny.
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Asai Basic Become Blind Concordance Condition Country Course Destiny Evolutionary Last Own People Policy Purse Situation
The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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Chicken Come Happen Home House Just Move Roost
People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil-soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Again Almighty Country Forec God Grace People Person Return Soil Stand
The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice.
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Above Greatest Other Practice Religious REquired Sacrifice Soldier Training
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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Automatic Encounter Mightier never Obviously Pen Sword Weapon
Never ask age of a woman.
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Age Ask never Woman
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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Aim Artificially Bred Country Economy Gear Generally Induce Misguide Park Pattern Policy Psychosis
No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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Encounter Enemy Ever First Plan Survive
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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Army Backward Expect Forward Good Lead Look Much Only Platoon Soldier Think Well
Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.
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Against Blank Cartridge Danger Head Hurt Mob Over Person Use Volley
Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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Army Destroy Line Nine Serve Supply Time
I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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Death Eye Look Many Old Rope Sounder Think Times
To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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Destroy Dilute Game Purpose Substitute Victory Will Win
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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Abound Arm Change Great Longer Nowhere Past Profession
In war there is no substitute for victory.
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Substitute Victory War

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