The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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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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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away
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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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War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
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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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Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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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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l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
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