To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURWhatever 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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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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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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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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I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
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Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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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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He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
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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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