No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURHistory 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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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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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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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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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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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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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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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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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
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A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.
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