We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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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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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
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Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
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They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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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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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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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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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
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There 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.
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