In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURAre 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?
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny.
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To master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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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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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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Americans never quit.
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History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
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