Quotes from General MacArthur, Quotable Quotes from a famous Person

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

"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."

"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be

vigilant in its

preservation."

"A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his

command

make him."

"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."

"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."

"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but

victories."

"There is no substitute for victory."

"I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the

colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down."

"In war there is no substitute for victory."

"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."

"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."

"Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the

courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things

through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the

brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side

and the voice of your ;conscience on the other."

"Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die."

"The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself."

"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."

"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."

"A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his

command make him."

"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be

vigilant in its preservation."

"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."

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

"You are remembered for the rules you break."

"There's no security on this earth, only opportunity."

"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."

"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."

"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the

soul."

"It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh."

"The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep

us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of

grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible

evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by

furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect,

these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to

have been quite real."

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