Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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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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From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea – written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo – “There is no substitute for victory!”
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I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
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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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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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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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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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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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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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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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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
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The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
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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.
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