Douglas MacArthur
Quotations
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“Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.” -Douglas MacArthur
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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?” -Douglas…
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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.” -Douglas MacArthur
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“Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.” -Douglas MacArthur
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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.” -Douglas MacArthur
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“They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.” -Douglas MacArthur
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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.” -Douglas MacArthur
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“Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.” -Douglas MacArthur
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“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.” -Douglas MacArthur
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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.” -Douglas MacArthur
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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.” -Douglas MacArthur
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“Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.” -Douglas MacArthur
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“A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.” -Douglas MacArthur
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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.” -Douglas MacArthur
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“I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.” -Douglas MacArthur
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“The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.” -Douglas MacArthur
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. – Douglas MacArthur
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