“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 MACARTHURIn war there is no substitute for victory.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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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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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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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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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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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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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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He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
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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’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions – those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR