I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
Quote by 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.
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Douglas Macarthur Quotes
- 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.
- In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
- 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.
- Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
- In war there is no substitute for victory.
- It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
- 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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