From 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!”
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
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I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
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No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
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I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
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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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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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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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I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
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Our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?
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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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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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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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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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