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?
DOUGLAS MACARTHURPart of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
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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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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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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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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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I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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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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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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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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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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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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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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The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin.
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight.
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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