Our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?
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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History 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.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
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They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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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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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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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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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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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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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
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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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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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