In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURExpect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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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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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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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb… he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
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While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.
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The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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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!”
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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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Americans never quit.
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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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