The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURGive me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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“Duty, Honor, Country” – those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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To master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
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War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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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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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 promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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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.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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