I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
DOUGLAS MACARTHURWhat they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support – not imperious direction – the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
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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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If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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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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Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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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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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 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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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
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