Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIf I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away
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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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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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I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
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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.
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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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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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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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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR