It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
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Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this 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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The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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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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I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.
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