There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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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.
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I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.
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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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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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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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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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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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Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
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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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I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.
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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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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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