Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
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The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur 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.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Security lies in our ability to produce.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
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Becca FitzpatrickBecca Fitzpatrick Everyone’s supposed to stay in their lines and be neat. ‘You’re a rapper. You’re supposed to rap, carry a boom box, wear chains, and go to the club – that’s all you do. What are you doing collecting art?
Jay-ZJay-Z We sold more iPads in the last quarter alone than any PC manufacturer sold in their entire line.
Tim CookTim Cook I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.
Benito MussoliniBenito Mussolini I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
Veronica RothVeronica Roth It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
Florence PughFlorence Pugh If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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