62 result(s) for Douglas MacArthur Quotes.
"Old soldiers never die, they just fade away."
"There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity."
"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."
"Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it."
"The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late."
"I realize that the United States is passing through a period of uneasiness and fiscal distress caused by the disintegration of the war system."
"I'm very liberal with those highly privileged characters. Henry was such a man."
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"The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds of war."
"There is no security on this Earth, there is only opportunity."
"The history of failure in war can almost be summed up in two words: 'Too late.'"
"By profession, I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder - infinitely prouder - to be a father."
"I think, that a man, be he what he may, should content himself with doing a great deal of good, and not much harm."
"Life is a lively process of becoming."
"I have known war as few men now living know it."
"History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline."
"The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other."
"Reminiscences, the most satisfying link between aging and age."
"I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams."
"Tell a group of soldiers they are heroes and you just lost the war."
"Our country is the best country in the world. We are not perfect but we never lost sight of our greatness."
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
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"Always there has been an adventure just around the corner – and the world is still full of corners."
"I see that the old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down."
"I shall return."
"It is not an exaggeration to say that Napoleon had already become, at the age of thirty, one of the greatest military leaders in history."
"The history of failure in war can almost be summed up in two words: ‘too late.’"
"The central theme of waging a successful war is the defeat of the enemy’s will to resist, in most cases the destruction of his capacity to resist."
"For once you fade into the distance you will not reappear. You get but one crack at the great adventure of life. You have but one chance, and fate is the Hunter."
"History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual reawakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster."
"Anyone wanting to combat subversive activities and sabotage must have no fear of being called a fascist."
"In war, there is no substitute for victory."
"I am closing my fifty-two years of military service."
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
"The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave."
"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."
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"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."
"It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh."
"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others."
"I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down."
"You couldn't peg MacArthur. He was a most elusive man."
"I am fully aware of the tremendous risk involved in this operation. Yet my conviction has always been, and always will be, that the surest way to avoid a devastating and costly war is to be prepared for it."
"In my dreams, I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield."
"Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed."
"In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is an eyelash."
"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
"I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within."
"You are remembered for the rules you break."
"The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself."
"There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity."
"I realize that the United States, by reason of its size, wealth, and power, does not and cannot be governed as can small principalities."
"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."
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
"In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield."
"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation."
"I am closing my thirty-fifth year in military service and I leave it as I entered it, with the Star Spangled Banner waving almost as proudly over my head as when I first saw it."
"They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stank. And I loved them."
"The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."
"The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other."
"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."
"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 psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear."
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."
"There is no substitute for victory."
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