A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
More Quotes from Douglas MacArthur:
I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.Douglas MacArthur
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.
Douglas MacArthur
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.
Douglas MacArthur
I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
Douglas MacArthur
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Douglas MacArthur
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.
Douglas MacArthur
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