I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIt is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away
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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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I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
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However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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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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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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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 world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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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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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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Whatever your years, there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.
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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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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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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
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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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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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