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a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past. |
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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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And like the old soldier in 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 sight to see that duty. |
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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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By profession I am a Soldier and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father |
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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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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would gladly yield every honor which has been accorded me in war |
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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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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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I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander. |
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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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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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I realize that advice is worth what it costs -- that is, nothing. |
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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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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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