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DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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I came through and I shall return.
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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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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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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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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Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?
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Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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Competitive sports keep alive in us a spirit and vitality. Sports teach the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid; to be proud and unbowed in defeat, and yet humble and gentle in victory.
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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 army has ever done so much with so little.
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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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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
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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.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
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By profession I am a soldier and take great 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. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.
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The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.
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