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Americans never quit.
Douglas MacArthur
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Douglas MacArthur
Age: 84 †
Born: 1880
Born: January 26
Died: 1964
Died: April 5
Military Officer
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Arkansas
General Douglas MacArthur
General MacArthur
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Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.
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I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!
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We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
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The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.
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The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die they just fade away.
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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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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They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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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.
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I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
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On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea … are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them.
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