In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURDefensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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 soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
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Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration.
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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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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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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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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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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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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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.
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Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.
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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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