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.
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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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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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 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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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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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.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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I came through and I shall return.
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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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I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.
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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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