Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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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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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration.
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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
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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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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
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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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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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