A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURFrom the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea – written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo – “There is no substitute for victory!”
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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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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I came through 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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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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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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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
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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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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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