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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.
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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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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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Never ask age of a woman.
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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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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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The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
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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’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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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past…
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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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By profession I am a soldier and take great 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. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.
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