Few 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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIf we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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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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Competitive sports keep alive in us a spirit and vitality. Sports teach the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid; to be proud and unbowed in defeat, and yet humble and gentle in 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. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.
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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 we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
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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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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
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