It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUREven the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions – those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.
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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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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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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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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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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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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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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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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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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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