The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURLife is a lively process of becoming.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURBy profession I am a soldier and take 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.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURIt is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past…
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 MACARTHURI came through and I shall return.
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 MACARTHURLet us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThere is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURWe have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.
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 MACARTHURFew names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb… he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURHe does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURWhatever 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 MACARTHURFrom the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea – written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo – “There is no substitute for victory!”
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR