"In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery……" — Douglas MacArthur
"In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor."
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Douglas MacArthur
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132 Quotes by Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur has 132 quotes on this site.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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"Duty, Honor, Country" - those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what…
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It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to…
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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is…
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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer…
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We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can…
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I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of…
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Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as…
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind:…
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition…
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The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of…
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More Artillery Quotes
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one of 81 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.
— Michelle Bachelet
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The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward. All wheeled…
— Gunther Blumentritt
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They are still trying to bomb with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades to hit the Republican Guard who are controlling Saddam…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to…
— Noam Chomsky
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No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless…
— John T. Flynn
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A professional football team warms up grimly and disparately, like an army on maneuvers: the ground troops here, the tanks…
— Ted Solotaroff
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All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have…
— Laurence Sterne
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During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula…
— David Berlinski
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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Israel exists; it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders; and it has a right…
— Ronald Reagan
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Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding…
— Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
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