He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURYouth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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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!”
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The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
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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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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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