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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI came out of Bataan and I shall return!
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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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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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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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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Our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR