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Douglas MacArthur

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Douglas MacArthur
Age: 84 †
Born: 1880
Born: January 26
Died: 1964
Died: April 5
Military Officer
Little Rock
Arkansas
General Douglas MacArthur
General MacArthur
D. MacArthur
Break
Legacy
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Remembered
Rules
Military

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Youth is not entirely a time of life it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
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Old soldiers never die they just fade away.
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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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Duty, Honor, Country - those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
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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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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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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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It was close but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
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Americans never quit.
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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
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We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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