Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURExpect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn’t send me enough of them.
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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
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If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.
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Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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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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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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The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
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I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
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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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From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea – written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo – “There is no substitute for victory!”
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Americans never quit.
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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.
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