I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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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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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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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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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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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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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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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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They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
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Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
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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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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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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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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.
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