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?
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThere are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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Americans never quit.
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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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We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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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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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.
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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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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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