If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIn war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
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Americans never quit.
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The 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.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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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. 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.
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Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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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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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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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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The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR