Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURAlways there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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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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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.
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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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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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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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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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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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Americans never quit.
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