I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
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He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions – those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.
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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.
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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this 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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I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.
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There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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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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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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Whatever your years, there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.
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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.
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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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It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past…
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By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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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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I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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