A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURDefensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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I came through and I shall return.
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For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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Whatever your years, there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.
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Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.
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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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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
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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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We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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