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" Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. "
Douglas MacArthur
Away
Fade
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" 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. "
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" 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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" We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. "
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" 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. "
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" My first recollection is that of a bugle call. "
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" In war there is no substitute for victory. "
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" It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. "
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" 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. "
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" They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. "
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" The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. "
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" Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. "
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" Life is a lively process of becoming. "
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" The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself. "
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" Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die. "
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Afraid
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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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" 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. "
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Face
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Brave
" 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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" A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. "
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" 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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" Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. "
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" 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. "
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" Never give an order that can't be obeyed. "
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" You are remembered for the rules you break. "
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" The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other. "
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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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