If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURPreparedness is the key to success and victory.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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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.
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The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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In 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.
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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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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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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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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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR