The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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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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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil-soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
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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.
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Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb… he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys.
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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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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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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.
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