Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURPreparedness is the key to success and victory.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.
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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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Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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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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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.
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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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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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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 believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
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