"It is my earnest hope - indeed the hope of all mankind - that from this
solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the
past, a world found upon faith and understanding, a world dedicated to the
dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom,
tolerance and justice."
- General Douglas Macarthur
"In war there is no substitute for victory."
- Gen Douglas MacArthur
"I Shall Return"
- Gen Douglas MacArthur
"The President of the
United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from
Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I understand it, of organizing the
American offensive against Japan, a primary objective of which is the relief of
the Philippines. I came through and I shall return."
"Nine times of
ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed"
- Macarthur,
August 1950 to the Joint Chiefs of Staff
There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity.
- Gen Douglas MacArthur
"In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference
is an eyelash."
- General Douglas
MacArthur
In war there is no substitute for victory.
- General Douglas
MacArthur
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those
Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
- General Douglas
MacArthur
The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a
continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national
emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did
not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in
retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been
quite real.
- General Douglas
MacArthur
"I have just
returned from visiting the MARINES at the front, and there is not a finer
fighting organization in the world!"
- General Douglas MacArthur
By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder --
infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the
father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the
other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the
battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am
gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with
him our simple daily prayer, ''Our Father Who Art in Heaven.''
- General Douglas
MacArthur
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its
preservation
- General Douglas
MacArthur
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make
him.
- General Douglas
MacArthur
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
- General Douglas
MacArthur
You are remembered for the rules you break.
- General Douglas
MacArthur
There's no security on this earth, only opportunity.
- General Douglas
MacArthur
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
- General Douglas
MacArthur
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
- General Douglas
MacArthur
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 international
disputes.
- General Douglas
MacArthur
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
- General 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."
-General Douglas MacArthur
"In no other profession are the penalties for employing
untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military."
-General Douglas MacArthur
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seed that on
other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
-General Douglas MacArthur
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 international disputes.
-Douglas MacArthur
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