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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURNo physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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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 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 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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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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The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.
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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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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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I came through and I shall return.
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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