Did Douglas MacArthur Say, ‘You Are Remembered for the Rules You Break'?

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Did Douglas MacArthur Say, ‘You Are Remembered for the Rules You Break'?
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We could not find a document authored by MacArthur with the quote, or an audio recording of him saying it.

. The book covered a two-year period, and Ganoe claimed to have had its contents corroborated by Major Gen. Robert M. Danford who wrote a foreword to the book.of a time when, as a commanding officer, MacArthur was grappling with how to discipline a

I think I must have made the story quite pathetic, for when I finished, the Supe reached quickly for his handkerchief to dab at the sprouting tears. He swallowed and asked,"Are conditions such now that he won't repeat?" "Fudge the regulations!" he charged."They're sometimes made to be broken for the good of the whole. Rules are mostly made for the lazy to hide behind.

Someone commits a nuisance on a beautiful lane. The K.O. [Contracting Officer] yells to his adjutant to get out an order at once putting the lane off limits and placing a guard at its ends. Aha, he's cured that evil. Now, as a matter of fact, the transgression had never occurred before, and a hundred people who didn't commit nuisances are inconvenienced by the shutting off of a short cut. But it was easier for the K. O.

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