I came through and I shall return.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURWorry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away
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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb… he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
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However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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“Duty, Honor, Country” – those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
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