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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURBeware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
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Americans never quit.
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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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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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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 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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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
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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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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 see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
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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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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil-soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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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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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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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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