The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURA general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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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 returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions – those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.
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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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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
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However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
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While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.
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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?
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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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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny.
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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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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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