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• Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore the Republic to Constitutional direction, regain our personal liberties and reassume the individual state's primary responsibility and authority in the conduct of local affairs? 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?

  Douglas MacArthur

  Integrity, Mean, Responsibility

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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.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Life Lesson, Past, Fire

  DOUGLAS MACARTHUR (1964). “REMINISCENCES”

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• Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Mean, Victory

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away

  Douglas MacArthur

  Confidence, Cheer, Giving Up

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• Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Broken, Lazy, Rules And Regulations

  "MacArthur Close-Up". Book by William Addleman Ganoe, 1962.

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• Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Veterans Day, Peace, Military

  Address to joint meeting of Congress, 19 Apr. 1951

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• Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Dust, Worry, Doubt

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• There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Mean, Demand

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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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.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Sports, Strong, Humble

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• No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Enemy, Encounters, Firsts

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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.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, War, Rallying Point

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

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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.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Bible, Believe, Tired

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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.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Philosophy, Voting, Political

  Douglas MacArthur, Edward T. Imparato (2001). “General MacArthur: Wisdom and Visions”, p.130, Turner Publishing Company

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• Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Death, Dying, Fit

  Douglas MacArthur, Edward T. Imparato (2001). “General MacArthur: Wisdom and Visions”, p.22, Turner Publishing Company

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• Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on

  Douglas MacArthur

  Moving, Optimism, Denial

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• The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Courage, Brave, World

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• The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Freedom, Lying, Government

  Douglas MacArthur (1965). “Duty, Honor, Country: A Pictorial Autobiography”

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• Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Leadership, Order, Giving

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• The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Religious, Sacrifice, Men

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

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• The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Success, Good Luck, Lucky Day

  "Fifty Years After MacArthur's 'Duty, Honor, Country' Speech" by Bruce Walker, www.thenewamerican.com. May 12, 2012.

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• War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Victory, Indecision

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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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.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Army, Thinking, Soldier

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• It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Courage, Memorial Day

  Speech at Republican National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 7 July 1952

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• Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Giving Up, Wrinkles, Years

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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.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Mean, Men

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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