On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThere 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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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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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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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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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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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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If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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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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Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration.
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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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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.
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I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
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