We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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 outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
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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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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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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.
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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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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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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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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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Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.
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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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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?
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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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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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