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" A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. "
Understanding
Better
Faith
" A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. "
General
Good
Him
" Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. "
Soul
Failure
Age
" 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. "
Always
Power
Home
" Americans never quit. "
Quit
Patriotism
Never Quit
" Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. "
Face
Be Strong
Brave
" Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. "
War
Peace
Honor
" Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. "
You
Honor
Three
" I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within. "
I Am
Working
Security
" I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world! "
Marines
Organization
World
" I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. "
Now
Know
Men
" In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. "
Dreams
Guns
Strange
" In war there is no substitute for victory. "
Victory
Substitute
War
" In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash. "
Win Or Lose
War
Win
" 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? "
Soul
Done
Time
" It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. "
Win
Without
Any
" 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. "
Economy
Policy
Country
" I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes. "
Death
Eye
Me
" Life is a lively process of becoming. "
Process
Life
Becoming
" Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye. "
Career
Light
Goodbye
" My first recollection is that of a bugle call. "
Recollection
Call
First
" Never give an order that can't be obeyed. "
Obeyed
Order
Give
" Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. "
Away
Fade
Soldiers
" 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. "
War
Opinion
Present
" Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die. "
Those
Afraid
Die
" Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. "
Economy
Country
Fear
" 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. "
Fear
Us
Patriotism
" 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. "
Live
Long
American Dream
" The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself. "
Luck
Yourself
Make
" There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. "
Earth
Opportunity
Security
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