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I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
By General Douglas MacArthur
I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
By General Douglas MacArthur
People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil
By General Douglas MacArthur
There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
By General Douglas MacArthur
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
By General Douglas MacArthur
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.
By General Douglas MacArthur
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.
By General Douglas MacArthur
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 by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
By General Douglas MacArthur
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
By General Douglas MacArthur
My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field ... I could not answer.
By General Douglas MacArthur
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
By General Douglas MacArthur