Douglas MacArthur citations

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I know war as few other men now living know it and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
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Discours au Congrès lors de sa démission (18 avril 1951)

Mustering half of the earth's population, and 60 percent of its natural resources these peoples are rapidly consolidating a new force, both moral and material, with which to raise the living standard and erect adaptations of the design of modern progress to their own distinct cultural environments. Whether one adheres to the concept of colonization or not, this is the direction of Asian progress and it may not be stopped. It is a corollary to the shift of the world economic frontiers as the whole epicenter of world affairs rotates back toward the area whence it started.
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Discours au Congrès lors de sa démission (18 avril 1951)

[...] the peoples of Asia found their opportunity in the war just past to throw off the shackles of colonialism and now see the dawn of new opportunity, a heretofore unfelt dignity and the self-respect of political freedom.
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Discours au Congrès lors de sa démission (18 avril 1951)

The Communist threat is a global one. Its successful advance in one sector threatens the destruction of every other sector.
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Discours au Congrès lors de sa démission (18 avril 1951)

Source: Reminiscences (1964), p. 198

Sylvanus Thayer Award acceptance speech to the cadets of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York (12 May 1962)

While transferring trains at Terowie, South Australia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terowie regarding the Battle of Philippines (20 March 1942)

1950s, Farewell address to Congress (1951)

Source: Reminiscences (1964), p. 183

Austin, Texas (13 June 1951); as published in General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1563115891, ed. Edward T. Imparato, Turner Publishing Company (2000), p.175
1950s, Speech to the Texas Legislature

1950s, Farewell address to Congress (1951)

1950s, Farewell address to Congress (1951)

To Colonel George M. Jones and the 503rd Regimental Combat Team, who recaptured Corregidor (2 March 1945), as quoted in Bureau of Navigation News Bulletin (1945), p. 40

Source: Reminiscences (1964), p. v

Source: Reminiscences (1964), p. 418

Source: Reminiscences (1964), p. 361

Quoted on 12 February 1951 in Tokyo http://www.valerosos.com/HonorandFidelity3.html#The_Korean_War:_1950

But there was never to be a next time.
Source: Reminiscences (1964), p. 361

From a 1946 statement by MacArthur confirming the death sentence imposed by a U. S. military commission on Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita, as quoted in MacArthur's Reminscences (McGraw-Hill, 1964) p. 295. Also used as the epigraph to Telford Taylor's Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy (New York: Bantam, 1970).
1940s

Too late in comprehending the deadly purpose of a potential enemy; too late in realizing the mortal danger; too late in preparedness; too late in uniting all possible forces for resistance, too late in standing with one's friends. Victory in war results from no mysterious alchemy or wizardry but depends entirely upon the concentration of superior force at the critical points of combat.

Statement MacArthur made in 1940, as quoted by James B. Reston in Prelude to Victory (1942), p. 64
1940s

Sylvanus Thayer Award acceptance speech to the cadets of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York (12 May 1962)

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1950s, Farewell address to Congress (1951)