The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIn war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
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No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
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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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The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
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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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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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However 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.
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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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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
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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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History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
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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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