Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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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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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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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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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 best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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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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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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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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