Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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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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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.
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I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
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War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
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For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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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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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
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Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR