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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.
Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!
Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.
If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice.
I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
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.
I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.
Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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.
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.
The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!
There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.
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.
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.
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.
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
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.
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.
For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.
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.