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What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support – not imperious direction – the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.

Douglas MacArthur

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Away Die Face Just never Old Soldier
Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Die Fight Know Men Without
Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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Execute Good Plan Today Violently
“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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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
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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Body Soul Wait Wrinkle
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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Cause Confidence Courage Ever Joint Modern Require Something Success Ultimate Willingness
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!”
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Beachhead Country East Every Far Idea Red Send Single Sole Thought Written
No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Encounter Enemy Ever First Plan Survive
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
Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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Beginning Men Peace Since Sought Time
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
No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
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Annunciation Courage Divine Instinct Physical Spiritual
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
Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb… he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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