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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.
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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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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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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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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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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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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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Never ask age of a woman.
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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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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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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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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
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