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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
Process
Life
Lively
Inspire
Becoming

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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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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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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for 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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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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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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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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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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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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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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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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It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.
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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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I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.
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Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.
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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
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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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