The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past…
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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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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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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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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions – those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.
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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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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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It 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.
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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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