Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURHistory fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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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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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?
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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away
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A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.
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