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 MACARTHURIn my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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To master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.
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I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
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I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
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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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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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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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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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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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l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
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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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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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For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.
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