No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURDuty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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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 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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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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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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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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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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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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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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Americans never quit.
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By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys.
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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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Our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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