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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThey died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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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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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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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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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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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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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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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
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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.
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Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb… he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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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 realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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