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Quotes by Douglas Macarthur
- 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.
- I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
- 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?
- I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
- In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
- In war there is no substitute for victory.
- In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
- It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
- It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
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