I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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.
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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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On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?
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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
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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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Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration.
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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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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.
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I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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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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