Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIn war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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I came through and I shall return.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
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I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn’t send me enough of them.
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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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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.
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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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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny.
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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
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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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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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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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