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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
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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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 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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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.
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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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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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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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I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of 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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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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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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Americans never quit.
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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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It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.
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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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