If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIt 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
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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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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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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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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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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.
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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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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I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
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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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The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
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