Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURAmericans never quit.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.
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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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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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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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The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn’t send me enough of them.
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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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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
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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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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history’s clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war.
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