The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURTalk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions – those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight.
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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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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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny.
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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 chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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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. 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.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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