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Douglas MacArthur

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Douglas MacArthur
Age: 84 †
Born: 1880
Born: January 26
Died: 1964
Died: April 5
Military Officer
Little Rock
Arkansas
General Douglas MacArthur
General MacArthur
D. MacArthur
Distinguishes
Armed
Army
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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It is my earnest hope - 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, a world found upon faith and understanding, a world dedicated to the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom, tolerance and justice.
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My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.
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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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Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
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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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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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Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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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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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
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I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
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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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