Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIn no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support – not imperious direction – the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.
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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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The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.
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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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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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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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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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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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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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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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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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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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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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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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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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