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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
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Americans never quit.
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
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It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.
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The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice.
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Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
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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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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.
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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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My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
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Men since the beginning of time have sought peace...military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn have failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness of war not blots out this alternative.
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I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.
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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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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
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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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l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
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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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A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. 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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