They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.
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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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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
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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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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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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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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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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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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
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History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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