“Duty, Honor, Country” – those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
-
-
No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
I came through and I shall return.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
Our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
Security lies in our ability to produce.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil-soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
While 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 MACARTHUR -
The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
Whatever your years, there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
By profession I am a soldier and take great 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 potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
Life is a lively process of becoming.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR