Security lies in our ability to produce.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUROptimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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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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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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If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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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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The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can’t get away this time!
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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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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War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
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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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l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
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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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