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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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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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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
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By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.
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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
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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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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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