The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can’t get away this time!
DOUGLAS MACARTHURNo plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
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I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.
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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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Our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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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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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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR