The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIn war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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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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However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
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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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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
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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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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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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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War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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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.
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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
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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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Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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Americans never quit.
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