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Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Douglas MacArthur

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Douglas MacArthur
Age: 84 †
Born: 1880
Born: January 26
Died: 1964
Died: April 5
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Little Rock
Arkansas
General Douglas MacArthur
General MacArthur
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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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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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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
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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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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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History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
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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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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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Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
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We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
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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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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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There is no security. Only opportunity.
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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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I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.
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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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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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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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