I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUROnce war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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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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Are 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?
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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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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.
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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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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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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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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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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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Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR