Douglas MacArthur Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• By 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. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Life, Art, Prayer

• The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Home, House, Chickens

  Comment to John F Kennedy on the presidential crisis. Kennedy enjoyed the remark and often quoted it. Quoted in Theodore C Sorensen Kennedy (1965).

• 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

  War, Home, Humility

  Douglas MacArthur's farewell address to a Joint Session of Congress, www.americanrhetoric.com. April 19, 1951.

• 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

  Peace, War, Home

  Douglas MacArthur's address to the Annual Stockholders Sperry Rand Corporation in New York (July 30, 1957) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 206), June 14, 2000.

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