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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
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The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.
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I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.
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There is no security. Only opportunity.
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Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
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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'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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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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I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.
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Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
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Americans never quit.
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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 will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.
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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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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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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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