Whatever your years, there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIn war there is no substitute for victory.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.
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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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I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
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So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away
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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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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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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
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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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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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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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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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