Security lies in our ability to produce.
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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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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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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Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.
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The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.
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The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
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So 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
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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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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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
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To master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.
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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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