The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThey 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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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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To master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.
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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
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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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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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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. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR