If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUROn the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
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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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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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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.
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny.
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
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We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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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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Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
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