I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
DOUGLAS MACARTHURLife is a lively process of becoming.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.
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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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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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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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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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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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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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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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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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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR