Douglas MacArthur Quotes About Soldiers

Quotes about: Soldiers

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  The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, Military, War

  "Duty, Honor, Country: A Pictorial Autobiography".

• Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Conquer The World, Giving, Soldier

• 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

• Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Veterans Day, Peace, Military

  Address to joint meeting of Congress, 19 Apr. 1951

• 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

  Country, Memorial Day, War

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

• The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Religious, Sacrifice, Men

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

• This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Plato, War, Mean

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

• By profession I am a soldier and take great 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 potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Father, Pride, Parenting

  "Reminiscence".

• I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

  Douglas MacArthur

  Journey, Soul, Soldier

• 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

  Goodbye, Military, Light

  1951 Address to Congress after being relieved of his duty by President Truman, 19 Apr.

• The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Soldier, West, World

  1951 Address to Congress after being relieved of his duty by President Truman,19 Apr.

• The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image. No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Spiritual, Religious, Sacrifice

• The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, Safety, Soldier

• 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.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Army, Thinking, Soldier

• A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Sweat, Soldier, Toil

• Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Reality, Soldier, Brain

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