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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI 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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI came out of Bataan and I shall return!
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 MACARTHURLife is a lively process of becoming.
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 MACARTHURAlways 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 by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe 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 MACARTHURMen since the beginning of time have sought peace.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURAge wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURYears wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURCompetitive sports keep alive in us a spirit and vitality. Sports teach the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid; to be proud and unbowed in defeat, and yet humble and gentle in victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURNo physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR