One cannot wage war under present conditions witho... -Douglas MacArthur

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.

Douglas MacArthur , General
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Douglas MacArthur was an American general and a key figure in World War II, known for his leadership in the Pacific Theater and for the famous phrase "I shall return."

Douglas MacArthur Quotes to Explore

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emerge...
Americans never quit....
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be....
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....
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 intern...
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....
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 psyc...
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propa...
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....

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As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is...
I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in ...
The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences....
Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first....
What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Cen...
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services....
The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, wh...
Those of my generation who grew up in the midst of the Cold War had a very, very strong awareness and very much were sort of influenced by the demoniz...
You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature....
What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?...