Our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIn war there is no substitute for victory.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
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He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
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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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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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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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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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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.
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The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
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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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Americans never quit.
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