In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.Douglas MacArthur
Expect only five percent of an intelligence report to be accurate. The trick of a good commander is to isolate the five percent.
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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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