In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIn this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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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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On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
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Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.
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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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Our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?
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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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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
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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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No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
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A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.
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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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