By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURWe 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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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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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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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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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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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 world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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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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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.
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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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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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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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