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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice.
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
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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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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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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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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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No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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