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 MACARTHURIn no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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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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.
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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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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.
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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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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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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 by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
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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 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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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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I came through and I shall return.
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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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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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR