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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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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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The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
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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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The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.
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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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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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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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No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
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I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn’t send me enough of them.
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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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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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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?
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR