For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURWhat they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support – not imperious direction – the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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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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Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.
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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.
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What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support – not imperious direction – the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.
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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
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The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin.
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The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can’t get away this time!
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil-soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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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.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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Whatever your years, there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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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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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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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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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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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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