I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
DOUGLAS MACARTHURNo man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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 MACARTHURIf I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUROnce 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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURYears wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURA soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURPeople 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 MACARTHURI believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURPart 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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURNo plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThere are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history’s clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUROld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR