Douglas MacArthur Quotes
Top 97 wise famous quotes and sayings by Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!
In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Part 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.
They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
That democracy works and will always work, because the people are allowed to think, to talk, and keep their minds free, open, and supple.
The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.
To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.
In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of
any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
You don't win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a bitch die for his
Always 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.
There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.