"I had learned one of the bitter lessons……" — Douglas MacArthur
"I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes."
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Douglas MacArthur
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132 Quotes by Douglas MacArthur
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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"Duty, Honor, Country" - those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what…
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It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to…
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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is…
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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer…
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We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can…
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I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of…
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Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as…
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind:…
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition…
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The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of…
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A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's…
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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise…
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
— Leonard Cohen
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm…
— Pablo Neruda
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Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will…
— George W. Bush
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow…
— Tennessee Williams
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
— Martial
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When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle…
— Samuel Rutherford
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