I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUROne cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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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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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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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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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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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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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
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Americans never quit.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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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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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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I came through and I shall return.
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The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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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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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
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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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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny.
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