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 MACARTHURHowever 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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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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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.
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I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
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Americans never quit.
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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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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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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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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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Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration.
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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR