In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURDefensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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To master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.
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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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The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice.
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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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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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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 just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
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Americans never quit.
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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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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?
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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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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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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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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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