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“I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.” quote by Douglas MacArthur — Download Open image

“I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.”

Douglas MacArthur

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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace...military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn have failed, leaving the only…

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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil—soil consecrated in the blood…

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I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects…

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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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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.

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However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country…

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While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and…

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I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution…

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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual…

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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…

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I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

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Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look…

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The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself…

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I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present…

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The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love…

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You will find a spring by the dwelling of the dead, to the left. Next to it stands a white cypress. Do not approach that spring, do not go near it. You will find another spring that pours from the lake of Memory, cool water gushes out of it. There are guards in front of it. Address these words to…

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[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

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