No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURToday 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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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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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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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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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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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away
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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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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history’s clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war.
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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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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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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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