I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURFew 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.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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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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l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history’s clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war.
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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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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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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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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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Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
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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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