American - Soldier | January 26, 1880 - April 5, 1964
I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
Douglas MacArthur
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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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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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I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
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There is no substitute for victory.
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Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
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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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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
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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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