Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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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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“Duty, Honor, Country” – those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
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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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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
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If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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