“Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.”

— Douglas MacArthur

Reported in William A. Ganoe, MacArthur Close-Up (1962), p. 137

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U.S. Army general of the army, field marshal of the Army of… 1880–1964

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