The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUROur government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.
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Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.
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WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.
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We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
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I came through and I shall return.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?
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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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A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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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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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR