The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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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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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions – those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.
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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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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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He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.
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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 have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR