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?
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThere are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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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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He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
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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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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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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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I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
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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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