Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUREven when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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I came through and I shall return.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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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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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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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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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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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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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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