I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe 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!
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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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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Competitive sports keep alive in us a spirit and vitality. Sports teach the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid; to be proud and unbowed in defeat, and yet humble and gentle in victory.
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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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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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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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However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.
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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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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
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I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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