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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

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
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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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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.
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My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
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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 have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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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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Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
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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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A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward but he must think only forward.
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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, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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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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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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