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• In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Divine Guidance, Perspective

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole. 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.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, War, Twilight

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, History, Triumph

  Radio Broadcast to the Nation Following the USS Missouri Surrender Ceremony, delivered 2 September 1945, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan

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• Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Monsters, Sides

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• It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Winning, Eyelashes

  Jules Archer, Douglas MacArthur (1973). “Front-line general”

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• The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, Safety, Soldier

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• I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, Twilight, Mind

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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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

  Eye, Thinking, Rope

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• My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Firsts, Recollection

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• It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to "resist aggression" is to destroy the potentialities of the aggressor to continually hit you...When you say, merely, "we are going to continue to fight aggression," that is not what the enemy is fighting for. The enemy is fighting for a very definite purpose-to destroy our forces.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Fighting, Enemy

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• A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Faith, Military

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• Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but
  victories.

  Douglas MacArthur

  History, Victory, Liberty

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• If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Military, Marine

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• In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny. What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support - not imperious direction - the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, War, Reality

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his effort to achieve increasing production. Representing over a half of Japan's total population, the agriculture workers have become an invincible barrier against the advance of socialistic ideas which would relegate all to the indignity of state servitude.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Wisdom, Japan, Ideas

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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

  Peace, War, Home

  Douglas MacArthur's address to the Annual Stockholders Sperry Rand Corporation in New York (July 30, 1957) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 206), June 14, 2000.

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• I am of Virginia and all my professional life I have studied of Lee and Jackson

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Virginia, Professional Life

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• I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Believe, Effort

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• While I was not consulted prior to the President's decision to intervene in support of the Republic of Korea, that decision from a military standpoint, proved a sound one, as we hurled back the invader and decimated his forces. Our victory was complete, and our objectives within reach, when Red China intervened with numerically superior ground forces.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, War, Korea

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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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.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Writing, Korea, Achievement

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• The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake. Our line of defense is a natural one and can be maintained with a minimum of military effort and expense.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, War, Lakes

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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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.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Marine, Winning

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• I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, War, Korea

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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.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Wisdom, Land, Long

  Jules Archer, Douglas MacArthur (1973). “Front-line general”

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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

  Goodbye, Military, Light

  1951 Address to Congress after being relieved of his duty by President Truman, 19 Apr.

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