He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURDuty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight.
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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
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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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They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.
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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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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.
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Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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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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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions – those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.
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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. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
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Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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