I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURHere 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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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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We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
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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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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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I came through and I shall return.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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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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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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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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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
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