Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURNever give an order that can’t be obeyed.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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.
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Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions – those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.
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Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
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From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea – written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo – “There is no substitute for victory!”
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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!
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Our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?
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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil-soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
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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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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.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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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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I came through and I shall return.
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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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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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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I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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