In war there is no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURNobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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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 one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn’t send me enough of them.
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The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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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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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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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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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions – those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.
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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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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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