Life is a lively process of becoming.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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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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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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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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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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In war there is no substitute for 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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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions – those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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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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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
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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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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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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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