"Talk of imminent threat to our national security……" — Douglas MacArthur
"Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions - those institutions we proudly called the American way of life."
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Douglas MacArthur
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132 Quotes by Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur has 132 quotes on this site.
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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"Duty, Honor, Country" - those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what…
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It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to…
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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer…
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We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can…
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I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of…
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Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as…
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind:…
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition…
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The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of…
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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…
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Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and…
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If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.
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To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if…
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It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.
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