We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURRules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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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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WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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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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So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away
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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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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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We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
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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.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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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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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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