On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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Part 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.
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.
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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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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
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Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb… he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
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I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
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I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
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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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The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
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