The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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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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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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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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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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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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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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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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The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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