In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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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Americans never quit.
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I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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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 chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.
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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
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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.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
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The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin.
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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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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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