Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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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 no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.
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What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support – not imperious direction – the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.
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We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
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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 outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
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On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
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