I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn’t send me enough of them.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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.
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Preparedness is the key to success and 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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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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