No army has ever done so much with so little.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURNo army has ever done so much with so little.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUROur 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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIn no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURWhat they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support – not imperious direction – the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThey must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURMen since the beginning of time have sought peace.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThere are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURWhile Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURNo man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURA soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURHistory 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 MACARTHURIt 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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURNobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR