Security lies in our ability to produce.
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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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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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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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.
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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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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.
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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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Never ask age of a woman.
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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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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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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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I came through and I shall return.
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Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
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