207 Quotes by Douglas MacArthur

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    Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed.

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    I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

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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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    I am of Virginia and all my professional life I have studied of Lee and Jackson.

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    It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battlefield but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer.

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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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    Duty, honor, country. those threeHallowed Words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

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    The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

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