We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURYou are remembered for the rules you break.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
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No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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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.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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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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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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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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The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin.
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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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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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR