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Douglas MacArthur

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Douglas MacArthur
Age: 84 †
Born: 1880
Born: January 26
Died: 1964
Died: April 5
Military Officer
Little Rock
Arkansas
General Douglas MacArthur
General MacArthur
D. MacArthur
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My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!
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My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.
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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 can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
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This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
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I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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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.
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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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Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
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The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.
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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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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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