The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin.
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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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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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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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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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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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions – those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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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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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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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
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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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Americans never quit.
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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
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By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys.
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