It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURYears may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
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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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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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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.
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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight.
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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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I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history’s clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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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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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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