In war there is no substitute for victory.
From Douglas MacArthur
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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.
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?
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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.
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.
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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