If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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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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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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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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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Americans never quit.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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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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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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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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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil-soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR