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 MACARTHURWe have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
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By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys.
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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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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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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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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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Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
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From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea – written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo – “There is no substitute for victory!”
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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