Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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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I came through and I shall return.
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Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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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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The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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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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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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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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If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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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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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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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
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The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
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The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
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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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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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By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys.
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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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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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We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
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The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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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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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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