Security lies in our ability to produce.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURLet us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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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 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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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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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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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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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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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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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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I came through and I shall return.
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Competitive sports keep alive in us a spirit and vitality. Sports teach the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid; to be proud and unbowed in defeat, and yet humble and gentle in victory.
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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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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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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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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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