Whatever your years, there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURToday the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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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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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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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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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history’s clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war.
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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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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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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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Never ask age of a woman.
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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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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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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