I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURAge wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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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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Whatever your years, there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.
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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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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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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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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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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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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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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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Never ask age of a woman.
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