Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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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The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.
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On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
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Americans never quit.
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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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I came through and I shall return.
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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
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The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
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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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Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history’s clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war.
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