I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThere are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history’s clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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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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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
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They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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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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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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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.
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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I came through and I shall return.
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Our 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.
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Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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