The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
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Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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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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Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
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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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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history’s clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war.
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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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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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Americans never quit.
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Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR