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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURFew names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb… he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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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.
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.
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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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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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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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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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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil-soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
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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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The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can’t get away this time!
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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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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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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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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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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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Our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?
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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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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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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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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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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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