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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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It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.
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History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
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We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
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My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.
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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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A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
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Americans never quit.
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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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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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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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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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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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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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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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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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