A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUROld soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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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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What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support – not imperious direction – the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.
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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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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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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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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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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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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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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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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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