The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURHave a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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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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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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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
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The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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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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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
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I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
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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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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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