Americans never quit.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUREven when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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By profession I am a soldier and take great 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. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.
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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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I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.
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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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Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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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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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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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR