We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURWe are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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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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War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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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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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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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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They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
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To master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.
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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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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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The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice.
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