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Vote: | A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Americans never quit. |
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Vote: | And like the old soldier in that 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 sight to see that duty. |
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Vote: | Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | In war there is no substitute for victory. |
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Vote: | In war, you win or lose, live or die-and the difference is just an eyelash. |
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Vote: | It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Last, but by no means least, courage - moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle - the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your; conscience on the other. |
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Vote: | Life is a lively process of becoming. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | My first recollection is that of a bugle call. |
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Vote: | Never give an order that can't be obeyed. |
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Vote: | No man is enitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation. |
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Vote: | Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. And like the old soldier in that 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 sight to see that duty. |
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Vote: | One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda. |
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Vote: | Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die. |
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Vote: | Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. |
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Vote: | Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live. |
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Vote: | The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. |
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Vote: | The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other. |
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Vote: | There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. |
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Vote: | Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. |
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Vote: | You are remembered for the rules you break. |
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Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 – April 5, 1964) was an American military leader. He is the most decorated soldier in the history of the United States military. He served in the U.S. Army most of his life, taking part in three major wars (World War I, World War II, Korean War) and rising to the rank of General of the Army, one of only nine people to hold that rank in U.S. history. President Manuel L. Quezon of the Philippines also made him a Field Marshal in 1937, the only American to ever hold such a rank, which he held until his death.
During World War II, MacArthur became famous for both losing and retaking the Philippines. He was appointed Supreme Allied Commander in the South West Pacific Area and led a series of military victories by Allied forces in the theatre. After Japan surrendered to the Allies in 1945, MacArthur became the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, rebuilding Japan during the Allied occupation. During the Korean War, MacArthur was removed from command for insubordination to U.S. President Harry S. Truman, causing a national controversy.
MacArthur remains one of the most controversial figures in American history. While greatly admired by many for his strategic and tactical brilliance, MacArthur is also criticized by many for his actions in command, such as his role in putting down the Bonus Army, his command in the Philippines and New Guinea, and his challenge to Truman during the Cold War. MacArthur was also criticized for his egotistical attitude.
Early life and education MacArthur was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. His parents were Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur, a recipient of the Medal of Honor during the American Civil War, and Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur of Norfolk, Virginia. In 1883, when he was three years old, his other brother, Malcolm, died (his older brother Arthur would later attend the U.S. Naval Academy and die in 1923 as a Captain.) MacArthur spent much of his childhood in remote parts of New Mexico such as Fort Selden, where his father commanded an infantry company. In his memoir Reminiscences, MacArthur wrote that his first memory was the sound of a bugle.
When MacArthur was six years old, his father was reassigned to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. Three years later, the MacArthur family moved to Washington, D.C. when Douglas's father took a post at the War Department. There he spent time with his paternal grandfather, Judge Arthur MacArthur, a member of the high-profile Washington political culture that had enormous influence on Douglas.
MacArthur's dad was posted to San Antonio, Texas in 1893. There, Douglas attended the West Texas Military Academy, where he became an excellent student. MacArthur entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1898. An outstanding cadet, he graduated as valedictorian of his 93-man class in 1903, with only two other students in the history of West Point surpassing his achievements. MacArthur became a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where he was a leader in combat engineering.
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