Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
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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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Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb… he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur 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.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur 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 MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
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He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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