Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Whatever your years, there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.
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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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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
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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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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb… he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
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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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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR