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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI came through and I shall return.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
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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.
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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
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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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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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Talk 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.
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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
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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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR






