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Douglas MacArthur [1880-1964] American

Rank: 4
Soldier, Military chief

Douglas MacArthur was an American five-star general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He 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.

War, Fear, History, Patriotism, Peace, Veterans Day, Age, Best, Death, Dreams, Failure, Faith, God, Government, Great, Life, Men, Success

Quote	Tags	Rank
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.	Peace, Veterans Day, War	101
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.	War	102
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.	Veterans Day	103
You are remembered for the rules you break.		104
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.		105
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.	Dreams, War	106
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.	War	107
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.	War	108
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.		109
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.	Great	110
Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.		111
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.	God	112
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.	Best	113
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.		114
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.	Age, Failure	115
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.	Men, War	116
I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.	Death	117
Americans never quit.	Patriotism	118
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.		119
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.		120
Life is a lively process of becoming.	Life	121
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.		122
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.	Fear, War	123
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.	Fear, Government, Patriotism	124
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.	Faith	125
I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!		126
They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.	History	201
In war there is no substitute for victory.	War	202
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.	War	203
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.		204
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.	Fear	205
There is no substitute for victory.	Success	206
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.	History, Peace	207
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?		208
My first recollection is that of a bugle call.		209
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.		210

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