Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURDefensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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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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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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Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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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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We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR







