So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIt is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past…
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
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I came through and I shall return.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history’s clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier 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.
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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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