WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThere are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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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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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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So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away
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No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
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I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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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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For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.
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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?
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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history’s clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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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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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
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