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 MACARTHURl know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Americans never quit.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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Whatever your years, there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
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War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.
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I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
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On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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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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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight.
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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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