In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURSo 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
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin.
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I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
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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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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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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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We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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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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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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We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.
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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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