The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURMen will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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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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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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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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Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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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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It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past…
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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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