Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThere are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
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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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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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We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.
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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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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
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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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If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil-soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
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I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
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