There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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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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There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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Competitive sports keep alive in us a spirit and vitality. Sports teach the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid; to be proud and unbowed in defeat, and yet humble and gentle in victory.
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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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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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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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I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
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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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Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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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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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
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On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
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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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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
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They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.
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The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
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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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