Top 100 Quotes About Douglas Macarthur
#1. Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.
Helen Thomas
#2. It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.
William Manchester
#3. He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great defenders of Christendom. (The other was the pope.)
William Manchester
#4. The clear suggestion is that there ought not to be civilian control of the military. What have callow noncombatants giving brisk orders to grizzled soldiers? How could Lincoln have fired the slavery-loving Gen. George B. McClellan, or Truman dismissed the glorious Douglas MacArthur?
Christopher Hitchens
#5. Mr. President. Douglas MacArthur said every military disaster can be explained in two words: 'Too late.
Tom Clancy
#6. His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them.
William Manchester
#7. He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.
William Manchester
#8. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. Douglas MacArthur
Terri Marie
#9. While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.
Douglas MacArthur
#10. I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
Douglas MacArthur
#12. I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.
Douglas MacArthur
#14. 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
#15. Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Douglas MacArthur
#17. Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
Douglas MacArthur
#18. 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
#20. I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
Douglas MacArthur
#21. I am of Virginia and all my professional life I have studied of Lee and Jackson
Douglas MacArthur
#23. Roosevelt is dead: a man who would never tell the truth when a lie would serve him just as well.
Douglas MacArthur
#26. A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Douglas MacArthur
#27. Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
Douglas MacArthur
#28. In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.
Douglas MacArthur
#29. Beware not the enemy from 'without' but the enemy from 'within'.
Douglas MacArthur
#30. I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.
Douglas MacArthur
#31. There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
Douglas MacArthur
#32. I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.
Douglas MacArthur
#33. Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.
Douglas MacArthur
#34. 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.
Douglas MacArthur
#36. The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.
Douglas MacArthur
#37. Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
Douglas MacArthur
#38. 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.
Douglas MacArthur
#40. If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
Douglas MacArthur
#41. That democracy works and will always work, because the people are allowed to think, to talk, and keep their minds free, open, and supple.
Douglas MacArthur
#42. The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake. Our line of defense is a natural one and can be maintained with a minimum of military effort and expense.
Douglas MacArthur
#43. We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
Douglas MacArthur
#44. You don't win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a bitch die for his
Douglas MacArthur
#45. By profession I am a Soldier & take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father.
Douglas MacArthur
#46. A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
Douglas MacArthur
#48. Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
Douglas MacArthur
#50. Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
Douglas MacArthur
#51. The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
Douglas MacArthur
#52. 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.
Douglas MacArthur
#53. Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
Douglas MacArthur
#54. September 15, 1950, MacArthur launched a brilliantly conceived and executed amphibious landing at Inchon, trapping a large North Korean force after walking ashore several times to ensure a good take for the cameras, his ever-present corncob pipe jutting from his jaw.
Douglas Brinkley
#55. I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
Douglas MacArthur
#56. The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
Douglas MacArthur
#57. On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
Douglas MacArthur
#58. 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
#59. The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
Douglas MacArthur
#60. We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.
Douglas MacArthur
#61. Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
Douglas MacArthur
#62. I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
Douglas MacArthur
#64. Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
Douglas MacArthur
#66. No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
Douglas MacArthur
#68. I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.
Douglas MacArthur
#69. 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.
Douglas MacArthur
#70. Apart from an innate grasp of tactical concepts, a great coach must possess the essentials attributes of leadership which mold men into a cohesive, fighting team with an invincible will to victory.
Douglas MacArthur
#71. I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!
Douglas MacArthur
#72. The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
Douglas MacArthur
#73. Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.
Douglas MacArthur
#75. In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Douglas MacArthur
#76. Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Douglas MacArthur
#77. The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
Douglas MacArthur
#78. I 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 MacArthur
#79. The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.
Douglas MacArthur
#80. For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.
Douglas MacArthur
#81. 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
#82. To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
Douglas MacArthur
#83. If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
Douglas MacArthur
#84. However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
Douglas MacArthur
#87. Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.
Douglas MacArthur
#90. 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.
Douglas MacArthur
#92. Last, but by no means least, courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle_ the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.
Douglas MacArthur
#93. Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
Douglas MacArthur
#95. Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthur
#97. I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any treat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
Douglas MacArthur
#98. I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
Douglas MacArthur
#100. It 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 MacArthur
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