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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.

Douglas MacArthur

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
Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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Beware Enemy From Within
Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
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Entirely Grow Life Live Mind Nearly Nobody Number Old State Time Year Youth
The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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Achivevmnet Country Effort Grandeur Greatest History Mark Military Scale
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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Enter Fatal Key War Will Win Without
If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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Devise Door Greater More Quotable Some System
Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.
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Alternative Apply Available End Even Force Mean Swift Upon War
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
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Continuous Fear Government Kept Patriotic Perpetual Size Stampede State
I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
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Fight FIner Front Just Marine Organization Return Visit World
However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
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Call Country Development Give Horrible Incident Mankind May Noblest Offer Soldier Upon
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
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Demand Dund Evil Exorbitant Furnishing Happen Quite Real Terrible
No army has ever done so much with so little.
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Army Done Ever Little Much So
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
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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Country Die Dream Long Part People Person Young
I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
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Become Done Life Matters Really Soul Suppose Symbol Way
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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All Best Luck Make Yourself
I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn’t send me enough of them.
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Command Country Criticism Enough Fought One People Person Troop War
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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Away Die Face Just never Old Soldier
The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.
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Beach Complete Deep Done Entire Journey Life Silent Symbol Thousand Wear World
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
By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.
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Fact Father Great Infinitely Price Profession Prouder Soldier Take
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
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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Attempt Courage Forget Make Master Ourselves Predominance Timidity
If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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Divison First Marine More War Wine
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.
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Again Almighty Country Forec God Grace People Person Return Soil Stand
The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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Country Countrymen Honor Live Safety Soldier Untruthful
Competitive sports keep alive in us a spirit and vitality. Sports teach the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid; to be proud and unbowed in defeat, and yet humble and gentle in victory.
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Alive Competitive Keep Spirit Sports Vitality

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