Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
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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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“Duty, Honor, Country” – those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
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It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.
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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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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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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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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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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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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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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
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