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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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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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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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Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
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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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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea – written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo – “There is no substitute for victory!”
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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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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Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
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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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It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past…
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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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