The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn’t send me enough of them.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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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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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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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history’s clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war.
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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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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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR