Top 100 Quotes About 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. My main regret in life is that there is no MacArthur Fellowship awarded in the field of Panda Satire.
Anne Belov
#3. 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
#4. With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of achievers. I compared what Id actually achieved in my life with what I would like to achieve and what other people have achieved, and I found that comparison depressing.
Jared Diamond
#5. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from current research on how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life.
Henry Jenkins
#6. God is the decider and the determiner of every man's destiny, the controller of every detail in every individual's life, which is another way of saying, "He is God."1 - John MacArthur
Steven J. Lawson
#7. 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
#8. Few American commentators evaluated MacArthur's strategic sense at various stages in his generalship in Korea; it was instead the perception of whether he was winning or losing that mattered most to the public.
Victor Davis Hanson
#9. Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from current research on how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. The Reports result from research projects funded by the MacArthur
Carrie James
#10. When I found out that I had won the MacArthur Fellowship, I had been a professor at Carnegie Mellon for a week. I probably shouldn't be saying this on TV, but I stopped worrying about tenure.
Luis Von Ahn
#11. MacArthur himself was more interested in the similarities among phenomena, because similarities reveal the workings of regular processes ... I've already quoted MacArthur's statement that to do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.
Quammen, David
#12. 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
#13. To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.
David Simon
#14. I fired MacArthur because he wouldn't respect the authority of the president. I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was.
Harry Truman
#15. 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
#16. MacArthur Foundation, as part of its initiative on Digital Media and Learning, we thank Constance M. Yowell, Director
Cathy N. Davidson
#17. Mr. President. Douglas MacArthur said every military disaster can be explained in two words: 'Too late.
Tom Clancy
#18. Think of Iraq as "East Korea," because it was a shoot the cuffs war for the edification of Kim Jong Il to let him know we've now circled the SUVs. Iraq was about breaking adhesions, getting lean, staying frosty - in short, getting ready for the big Doug MacArthur Memorial Cage Match to come.
Dennis Miller
#19. I'm honored to have been chosen as a fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. I am hugely appreciative for the support I have had throughout my life, and I look forward to using the grant to help institutions that have fed my soul and to support new work that inspires me.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#20. His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them.
William Manchester
#21. Whether the Eisenhower administration has underestimated the American people's interest in space exploration or Truman never full appreciated MacArthur, the Soviet Union's Sputnik program has created a public spectacle that even Disney and von Braun might envy.
Ken Hollings
#22. 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
#23. I called up and said, 'Dad, I won a MacArthur.' My father goes: 'I always thought your sister would win that,' and I said, 'Dad, just say congratulations and keep your private thoughts private.' At that point he laughed, then burst into tears, and it was obvious that he was so happy and proud.
Bonnie Bassler
#24. It was stupid not to let MacArthur finish off those rice eaters. Push 'em back.
H. G. Bissinger
#25. Adam was refined dirt; Eve was a glorious refinement of humanity itself. -John MacArthur, Twelve Extraordinary Women
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#26. Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
William Manchester
#27. I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book ... and I began putting more work into environmental history.
Jared Diamond
#28. My dad had the greatest admiration for MacArthur when they were working together in Washington before the Philippines. And Dad used to talk with absolute awe about MacArthur's brain.
John Eisenhower
#29. In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have his head examined,' as General MacArthur so delicately put it.
Robert M. Gates
#30. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from current research on how young people learn, play,
Joseph Kahne
#31. 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
#32. Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.
David Halberstam
#33. General MacArthur told me, "You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself."
John Wayne
#34. When I won the MacArthur, I didn't receive a different amount of money than the men did.
Margaret Geller
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Do you know what the Spirit-filled life is? It is living every moment as though you are standing in the presence of Jesus Christ!
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#40. But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.
James MacArthur
#41. 18The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#42. If we could build an economy that would use things rather than use them up, we could build a future.
Ellen MacArthur
#44. Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.
James MacArthur
#45. In thought and practice we are far from holy, but in the new nature we are perfectly holy: "In Him [we] have been made complete" (Col. 2:10).
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#46. I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.
Douglas MacArthur
#48. Our greatest limitation isn't the leader of the lives; it is the spirit within us.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#49. We allow our daily concerns to turn into worry and therefore sin when our thoughts become focused on changing the future instead of doing our best to handle our present circumstances.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#50. 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
#51. Christ is the foundation of all our hopes for time and for eternity. Oh, build on this divine foundation! All other foundations are sinking sand.
Robert Stuart MacArthur
#52. 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
#53. If a dying Savior could bring us to God's grace, surely a living Savior can keep us in His grace.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#54. Clung tightly to the Lord, faithfully following Him and obeying His commands (v. 6).
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#55. 4Behold, as for the aproud one, His soul is not right within him; But the brighteous will live by his 1faith.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#56. 18O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#57. Since God has a will for us, He must want us to know it. If so, then we could expect Him to communicate it to us in the most obvious way.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#58. True Christianity is not defined on the basis of external moralism, religious traditionalism, or partisan politics, but on the basis of a personal love for Jesus Christ and a desire to follow Him no matter what the cost (John 14:15).
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#59. Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant, and praise is beautiful.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#60. The one most valuable lesson humanity ought to have learned from philosophy is that it is impossible to make sense of truth without acknowledging God as the necessary starting point.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#61. We confess that our best service is altogether unprofitable, and when we have rendered our best obedience, we are still merely unworthy slaves who have done no more than that which we ought to do.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#63. Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
Douglas MacArthur
#64. As long as I continue to breathe, as long as there's injustice in this world, I will use the voice that God has given me to speak against it.
James MacArthur
#65. Jesus gave us, His children, three reasons for not worrying about this life: It is unnecessary because of our Father, it is uncharacteristic because of our faith, and it is unwise because of our future.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#66. God help us! We have turned the holy fire of God into a circus sideshow - and naive Christians are buying this without realizing that such shenanigans are actually blasphemous.21
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#67. 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
#68. The Lord accomplishes great things through weak people ... What is required of His people is an obedient spirit, not a roster of tremendous gifts and abilities.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#71. 11The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, And his glory is to overlook a transgression.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#72. I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
Douglas MacArthur
#73. Prayer is the spontaneous response of the believing heart to God. Those truly transformed by Jesus Christ find themselves lost in wonder and joy of communion with Him. Prayer is as natural for the Christian as breathing
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#74. I am of Virginia and all my professional life I have studied of Lee and Jackson
Douglas MacArthur
#76. I would never want to be president because the power to bring righteousness to this country does not now and will never reside in public office.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#77. Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.a
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#78. While nothing in the Bible is contradictory, many of the Bible's most provocative and profound truths appear to us paradoxical.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#79. Roosevelt is dead: a man who would never tell the truth when a lie would serve him just as well.
Douglas MacArthur
#81. My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.
James MacArthur
#84. When Christ said to "pray, then, in this way," He didn't mean to pray with His exact words.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#85. The symbolism in Jesus' parables is never thickly layered, and rarely even multidimensional.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#86. A true Christian does not see God's promise of forgiveness as a license to sin, a way to abuse His love and presume on His grace. Rather, he sees God's gracious forgiveness as the means to spiritual growth and sanctification. He continually thanks God for His great love and willingness to forgive.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#87. A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Douglas MacArthur
#88. false promises of an easy life or indulgence of sins. But in good times, the cost does not seem so high, and people take the name of Christ without undergoing the radical transformation of life that true conversion implies.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#89. 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
#92. In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.
Douglas MacArthur
#93. I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.
James MacArthur
#94. When you choose to love someone who is no longer attractive to you, he or she will become attractive.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#95. They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.
James MacArthur
#96. If Jesus expresses loving concern for the smallest of our troubles, certainly in His role as the perfect sufferer He cares for our greatest traumas.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#97. Beware not the enemy from 'without' but the enemy from 'within'.
Douglas MacArthur
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.
Douglas MacArthur
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