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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURTo dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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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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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
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There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
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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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If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
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Americans never quit.
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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
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We 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.
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So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away
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