I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
DOUGLAS MACARTHURA soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb… he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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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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The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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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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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.
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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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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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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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