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“Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.”
― Douglas MacArthur

“We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction”
― Douglas MacArthur

“Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.”
― Douglas MacArthur

“Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.”
― Douglas MacArthur

“The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!”
― Douglas MacArthur

“On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.”
― Douglas MacArthur

“Americans never quit.”
― Douglas MacArthur

“It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.”
― Douglas MacArthur

“Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away”
― Douglas MacArthur

“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
― Douglas MacArthur

“I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.”
― Winston Groom, Forrest Gump

“Stupid is as stupid looks.”
― Winston Groom, Gump & Co.

“Life is like a box of chocolates.”
― Winston Groom, Gump & Co.

“I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think... I think... maybe... it's both happening at the same time.”
― Winston Groom, Forrest Gump

“Run Forrest, run!”
― Winston Groom, Forrest Gump

“That's all I have to say about that.”
― Winston Groom, Forrest Gump

“Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was ever going somewhere, I was running!”
― Winston Groom, Forrest Gump

“Mama read it an began pulling her hair an weepin an praisin the Lord, 'cause it say I am 'Temporarily Deferred' on account of I am a numbnuts.”
― Winston Groom, Forrest Gump