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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI came out of Bataan and I shall return!
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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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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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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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
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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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The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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To master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.
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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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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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In war, indeed, there can be 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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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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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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We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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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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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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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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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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