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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIn no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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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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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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Americans never quit.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
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Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
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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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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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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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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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