The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURYears wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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Competitive sports keep alive in us a spirit and vitality. Sports teach the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid; to be proud and unbowed in defeat, and yet humble and gentle in victory.
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Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?
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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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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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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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History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
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War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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