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A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. - [Faith] Americans never quit. - [Americans : Quitting] I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away. And 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. Goodbye. - in a speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress [Retirement : Soldiers] I shall return. - [War] It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh. - [Spirit] No army has ever done so much with so little. - [Army] On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory. - [War] Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind. - [Rules] Security lies in our ability to produce. - [Security] The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction. - [Liberty] The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars. - [Soldiers] Wars are caused by undefended wealth. - [War] We are not retreating--we are advancing in another Direction. - [War] Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. - [Liberty]
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