I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUROne cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
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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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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil-soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
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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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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.
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I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn’t send me enough of them.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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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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I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
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The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can’t get away this time!
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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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