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.
The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.
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.
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.
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.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.
Apart from an innate grasp of tactical concepts, a great coach must possess the essentials attributes of leadership which mold men into a cohesive, fighting team with an invincible will to victory.
From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea – written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo – “There is no substitute for victory!”
We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.
A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.