We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn’t send me enough of them.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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Whatever your years, there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game 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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Years 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.
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Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil-soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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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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I came through and I shall return.
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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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR