Top 10 Most Famous Douglas MacArthur Quotes (BEST)
PinYou are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair.PinThe soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.PinYou are remembered for the rules you break.PinWhoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.PinI 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.PinPart 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.PinLife is a lively process of becoming.PinGive me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.PinAge wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.PinThere is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
15 General Douglas MacArthur Quotes on Duty, Honor and Country (WAR)
“Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.”
Douglas MacArthur
PinDuty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.PinThe enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can’t get away this time!PinIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.PinA general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.PinNever give an order that can’t be obeyed.PinWe are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.PinThe history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.PinOnce war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.PinIn war there is no substitute for victory.PinCould I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.PinI have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!PinOne cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.PinI 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.PinYou don’t win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a bitch die for his.
6 Douglas MacArthur Quotes on Death (FADE AWAY)
PinThey died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.PinIn war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.PinI’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.PinOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.PinLike the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.PinIn my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
10 Inspirational Douglas MacArthur Quotes (I SHALL RETURN)
“I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?”
Douglas MacArthur
PinA true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.PinOnly those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.PinNo man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.PinEven when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.PinThe 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.PinA better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.PinI had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.PinThe best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.PinHave a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
5 Douglas MacArthur Quotes on Government (CONSPIRACY)
“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 awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.”
Douglas MacArthur
PinOur government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.PinAlways 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.PinOur country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.PinRules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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