I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURPreparedness is the key to success and victory.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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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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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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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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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 believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.
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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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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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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.
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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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The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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Even 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.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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