Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history’s clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can’t get away this time!
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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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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Old soldiers never die; they 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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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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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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By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR