Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
DOUGLAS MACARTHURNine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
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History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
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I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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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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However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
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I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn’t send me enough of them.
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