Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.
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Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
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We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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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.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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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!
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR