I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURAre 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?
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb… he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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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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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
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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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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn’t send me enough of them.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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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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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
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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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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.
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