I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURNever ask age of a woman.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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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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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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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 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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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil-soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
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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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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’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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