Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURSecurity lies in our ability to produce.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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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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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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Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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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. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny.
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.
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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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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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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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The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can’t get away this time!
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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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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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The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
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Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
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