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Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

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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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
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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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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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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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We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
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It is my earnest hope - indeed the hope of all mankind - that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past, a world found upon faith and understanding, a world dedicated to the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom, tolerance and justice.
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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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We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
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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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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
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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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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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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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