Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURYears wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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Our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?
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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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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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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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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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For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
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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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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.
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