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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURHave a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
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I came through and I shall return.
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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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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil-soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
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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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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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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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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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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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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. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR