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Security lies in our ability to produce.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur 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.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur 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.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur 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.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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