Douglas MacArthur Quotes About World War 2

Quotes about: World War 2

• Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Veterans Day, Peace, Military

  Address to joint meeting of Congress, 19 Apr. 1951

• We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Veterans Day, Witty, Military

• 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

  War, History, Triumph

  Radio Broadcast to the Nation Following the USS Missouri Surrender Ceremony, delivered 2 September 1945, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan

• 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

  War, World, I Can

• It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Winning, Eyelashes

  Jules Archer, Douglas MacArthur (1973). “Front-line general”

• Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, World, Praying

  Opening and Closing Statements at the Japanese Surrender Ceremony, delivered 2 September 1945, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan

• Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Please Me, Giving

• The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, War, Achievement

• I came through and I shall return.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, World, Return

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 21 Mar. 1942

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