Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURHe does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.
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The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
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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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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.
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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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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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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.
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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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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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