Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
DOUGLAS MACARTHUROur 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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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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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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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.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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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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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil-soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
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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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