I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
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I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
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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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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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Are 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?
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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