Douglas MacArthur Quotes - Page 4

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• I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Life, Retirement

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• Americans never quit.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Perseverance, Military, Usa

  The New York Times (p. 13), August 9, 1928.

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• Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of
  any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Uplifting, Philosophy, Men

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• 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

  Peace, War, Patriotic

  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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• 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

  Peace, Hurt, War

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• People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil—soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples. We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Blood, Two, People

  Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, Douglas MacArthur (1966). “Reports of General MacArthur: suppl. MacArthur in Japan: the occupation, military phase”

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• Never ask age of a woman.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Age, Asks

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• 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

  Dream, Country, Memorial Day

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• Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Wealth

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• In war there is no substitute for victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Memorial Day, Inspirational Sports, Motivational Sports

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

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• Security lies in our ability to produce.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Lying, Produce, Ability

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• I came out of Bataan and I shall return!

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Return

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• If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Doors, Armageddon, Equitable

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Advice, Cost, Realizing

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

  Douglas MacArthur

  Reality, Soldier, Brain

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• l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, Military, War

  "Duty, Honor, Country: Two Memorable Addresses".

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• Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Baseball, War, Names

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• 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

  Courage, War, Preparation

  First public statement upon arriving in Australia, March 1942.

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• 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

  Change, Country, Past

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• I came through and I shall return.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, World, Return

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

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• It is my earnest hope - indeed the hope of all mankind - that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past, a world found upon faith and understanding, a world dedicated to the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom, tolerance and justice.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, Military, War

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

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• We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Goal, Progress, World

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• 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

  Humanity, Surrender, Incidents

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• From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea - written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo - "There is no substitute for victory!"

  Douglas MacArthur

  Ideas, Australia, Victory

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• 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

  Military, Color, Enemy

  Douglas MacArthur's address to Colonel George M. Jones and the 503rd Regimental Combat Team who recaptured Corregidor (March 2, 1945) as quoted in "Bureau of Navigation News Bulletin", 1945.

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