I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURTraining distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
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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.
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We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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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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There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
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War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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