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Book: American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964
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  1. William Manchester _ American Caesar: Douglas

    councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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  2. William Manchester _ American Caesar: Douglas

    Some 4,887 miles to the east of him, north of the
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  3. William Manchester _ American Caesar: Douglas

    If Peking wasn't stopped in the peninsular war, he argued, China would be recognized as "the military colossus of the East." U.S. prestige would plummet, and the world's new nations would gravitate toward neutralism.
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  4. William Manchester _ American Caesar: Douglas

    patriotism, vitiated by the growing global diaspora, has become parochial, a tarnished, disappearing virtue.
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  5. William Manchester _ American Caesar: Douglas

    was an eighth cousin of Churchill, and a sixth cousin, once removed, of FDR-and three of World War II's great leaders were thus linked by American intermarriages.
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  6. William Manchester _ American Caesar: Douglas

    there are times when a truly remarkable soldier must resort to unorthodox behavior, disobeying his superiors to gain the greater glory.
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  7. William Manchester _ American Caesar: Douglas

    The heart of the other quotation, from Lincoln, was: "If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, these shops might as well be closed to any other business. I do the very best I know how, and I mean to keep doing so to the end.
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  8. William Manchester _ American Caesar: Douglas

    A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys.
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  9. William Manchester _ American Caesar: Douglas

    John Kennedy once remarked that "victory has a thousand fathers and defeat is an orphan.
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  10. William Manchester _ American Caesar: Douglas

    I will not take by sacrifice what I can achieve by strategy.
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