We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURA true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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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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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?
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I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
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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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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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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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The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
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I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn’t send me enough of them.
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We 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.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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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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