Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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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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There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past…
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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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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
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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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Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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