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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURWe have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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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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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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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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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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We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.
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However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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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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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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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!
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR






