We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURAlways 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.
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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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil-soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
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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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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
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Americans never quit.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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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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What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support – not imperious direction – the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.
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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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By profession I am a soldier and take great 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. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.
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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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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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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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