Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight.
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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Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny.
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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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I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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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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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history’s clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war.
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