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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURFrom 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!”
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
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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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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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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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There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
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Our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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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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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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History 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.
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