And now, like the old soldier of that 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. Good-bye.
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We pray for MacArthur's erection.
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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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Robert E Lee didn't make it the first time and Jefferson Davis took the vacancy. Pershing didn't make it for two years, MacArthur couldn't get in the first year and Eisenhower took an extra year of high school to get in. Patton took three years to get in and five to get out.
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Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.
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I am not retreating, I am advancing in a different direction.
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On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
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By profession I am a soldier and take 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 potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven.
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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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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
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I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. ItÆs the age-old struggleùthe roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other
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There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
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There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
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It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.
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I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
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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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My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field ... I could not answer.
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There's no security on this earth, only opportunity.
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I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.
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Americans never quit.
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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.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation
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In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
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There is no security on earth there is only opportunity.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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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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I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.
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We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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