Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn’t send me enough of them.
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
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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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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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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. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.
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I came through and I shall return.
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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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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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