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Security lies in our ability to produce.

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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Security
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The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea … are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them.
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I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.
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While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.
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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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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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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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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
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I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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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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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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My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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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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Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
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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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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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