Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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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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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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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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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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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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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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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for 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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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny.
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