There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURl know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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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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History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
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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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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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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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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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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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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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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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