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Douglas MacArthur Quotes (68 quotes)
 | Source/Notes: Remarks at the Surrender Ceremonies (2 Sept. 1945). Original: "A better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage - a world founded upon faith and understanding". As quoted in: General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964, 2000, p. 136 |
| “A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.” ―Douglas MacArthur Source/Notes: As quoted in: General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964, p. 249 |
| “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 Source/Notes: Address to the Annual Stockholder's Meeting of the Sperry Rand Corporation, New York, 30 July 1957 |
| Source/Notes: As quoted in "Douglas MacArthur: What Greater Honor", Janet Benge, Geoff Benge, YWAM Publishing, 2004, p. 83 |
| “And like the old soldier in that 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 sight to see that duty.” ―Douglas MacArthur Source/Notes: As quoted in: Safire's Political Dictionary, William Safire, Oxford University Press, 2008, p. 494 |
| “Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.” ―Douglas MacArthur Source/Notes: "A Father's Prayer". As quoted in "General MacArthur: Wisdom and Visions", compiled by Edward T. Imparato, Turner Publishing Company, 2000, p. 158 |
| “Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.” ―Douglas MacArthur Source/Notes: As quoted in: Newsweek, Volume 44, 1954, p. 76 |
| “Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.” ―Douglas MacArthur Source/Notes: Duty, Honor, Country: A Pictorial Autobiography, McGraw-Hill, 1965, p. 213 |
| “I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.” ―Douglas MacArthur Source/Notes: As quoted in: LIFE magazine, 25 Jun 1951, Vol. 30, No. 26, p. 42 |
| “I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!” ―Douglas MacArthur Source/Notes: Outskirts of Seoul, 21 Sept. 1950. As quoted in: United States Marines, Thomas A. Siefring, Hamlyn, 1979, p. 164 |
| “I have known war as few men now living know it. Its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.” ―Douglas MacArthur Source/Notes: Reminiscences by Douglas MacArthur, Naval Institute Press, 1964, p. 404, "Soldier's Return" |
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Douglas MacArthur
Born: January 26, 1880
Died: April 5, 1964 (aged 84)
Nationality: American
Occupation: General
Bio: General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army who was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines Campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur, Jr.
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