The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUROld soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
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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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Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.
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No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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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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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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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
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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!
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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.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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