To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUREven 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
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If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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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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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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So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away
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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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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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By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.
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