Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURBelieve me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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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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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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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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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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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.
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Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away
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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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Americans never quit.
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