Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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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The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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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.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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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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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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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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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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