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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid of dying.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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The history of failure in war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice.
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I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
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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.
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I said, to the people of the Philippines whence I came, I shall return. Tonight, I repeat those words: I shall return!
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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 suicide.
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Upon the fields of friendly strife
Are sown the seeds
That, upon other fields, on other days
Will bear the fruits of victory.
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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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I see that the 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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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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I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
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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 is the noblest development of mankind.
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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.
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I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.
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The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.
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By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am also prouder, infinitely prouder to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
January 26, 1880
Died:
April 5, 1964
(aged 84)
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