The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURWhatever 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
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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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We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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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 came through and I shall return.
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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To master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.
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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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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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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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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR