We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
-
-
I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
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 -
There 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 MACARTHUR -
Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
Life is a lively process of becoming.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
“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 MACARTHUR -
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR






