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Douglas Macarthur

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    A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

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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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    Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

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    A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.

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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.

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    Americans never quit.

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    Apart from an innate grasp of tactical concepts, a great coach must possess the essentials attributes of leadership which mold men into a cohesive, fighting team with an invincible will to victory.

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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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    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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    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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    By profession I am a soldier and take great 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. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.

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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; 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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    Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

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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. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.

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    Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

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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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    Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

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    From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea - written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo - "There is no substitute for victory!

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    Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.

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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. They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.

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    He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his effort to achieve increasing production. Representing over a half of Japan's total population, the agriculture workers have become an invincible barrier against the advance of socialistic ideas which would relegate all to the indignity of state servitude.

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    However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.

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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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    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. While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.

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    I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.

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    I came out of Bataan and I shall return!

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    I came through and I shall return.

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    I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

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    If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.

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    If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.

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    I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.

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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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    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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    I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.

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    I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.

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    I 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... But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end.

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    I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!

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    In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.

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    In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

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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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    In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness? The answer must be clear and unequivocal if we are to avoid the pitfalls toward which we are now heading with such certainty. In many respects it is not to be found in any dogma of political philosophy but in those immutable precepts which underlie the Ten Commandments.

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    In the mighty and almost limitless potential of American industry-the brilliance and rugged determination of its leaders; the skill, energy and patriotism of its workers-there has been welded an almost impregnable defense against the evil designs of any who would threaten the security of the American continent. It is indeed the most forceful and convincing argument yet evolved to restrain the irresponsibility of those who would recklessly bring down upon the good and peace-loving peoples of all the nations of the earth the disaster of total war.

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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. 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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    In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.

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    In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.

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    In war there is no substitute for victory.

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    In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

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    I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

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    I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.

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    I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?