I 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?
DOUGLAS MACARTHURLife is a lively process of becoming.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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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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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
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Americans never quit.
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On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of 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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It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past…
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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