Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURYears may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.
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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They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.
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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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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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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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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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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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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 see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
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Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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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.
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR