A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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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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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
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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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I came through and I shall return.
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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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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support – not imperious direction – the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.
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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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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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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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