In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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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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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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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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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.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea – written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo – “There is no substitute for victory!”
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I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
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Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?
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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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To master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.
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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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR