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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Douglas MacArthur
Country, Rallying Point, Honor
Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom.

James Connolly
Rallying Point, Departure, Republic
James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.122, Pluto Press

"Duty, Honor, Country" - those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.

Douglas MacArthur
Country, War, Rallying Point
Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

William Vickrey
Real, Government, Rallying Point
William Spencer Vickrey (2004). “Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey”, Edward Elgar Pub

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

Betty Buckley
Bridges, Rallying Point, Giving

The arbitrary division between church and state... is used, as an easily identifiable rallying point, to subdue the opinions of that vast body of citizens who represent those with religious convictions.

Francis Schaeffer
Christian, Religious, Rallying Point

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