Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURFew 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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I came through and I shall return.
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Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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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.
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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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Americans never quit.
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It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.
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