Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1968
AUTHOR:
Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)
QUOTATION:
While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China and such was never given a thought, the new situation [Korea] did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.
ATTRIBUTION:
General DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, address to a joint session of Congress, April 19, 1951.—Congressional Record, vol. 97, p. 4124.
