It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURWe have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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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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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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I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.
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The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
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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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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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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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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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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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