He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURRules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
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However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
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I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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Americans never quit.
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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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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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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.
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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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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.
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