Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions – those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
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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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A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.
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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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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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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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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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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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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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I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.
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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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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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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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We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
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By profession I am a soldier and take 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.
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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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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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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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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. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.
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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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He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
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