l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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To master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.
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If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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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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Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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Americans never quit.
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By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys.
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He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
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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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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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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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