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?
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThere is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support – not imperious direction – the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.
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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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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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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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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.
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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 there is no substitute for victory.
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Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration.
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