Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURAre we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
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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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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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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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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea – written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo – “There is no substitute for victory!”
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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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The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice.
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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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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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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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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 came through 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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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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