Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIn no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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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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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
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From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea – written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo – “There is no substitute for victory!”
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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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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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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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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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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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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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Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb… he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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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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Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil-soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
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I came through and I shall return.
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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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