If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURTo dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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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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Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.
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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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They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.
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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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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil-soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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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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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past…
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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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