If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
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Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
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Americans never quit.
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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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From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea – written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo – “There is no substitute for victory!”
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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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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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I came through and I shall return.
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“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.
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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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