The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIf I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.
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I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.
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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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While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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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. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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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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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.
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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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In war there is 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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR