Americans never quit.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURPart 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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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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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 see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
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We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.
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The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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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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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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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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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR