Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURFrom the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea – written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo – “There is no substitute for victory!”
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
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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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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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To master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
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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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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn’t send me enough of them.
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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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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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