The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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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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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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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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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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Americans never quit.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
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Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR