Douglas MacArthur Quotes

• The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.

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• He’ll make a fine president. He was the best clerk who ever served under me.

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• It isn’t just dust that is settling in Korea, Senator, it is American blood.

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• The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point…but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

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• In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.

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• An unsinkable air-craft carrier.

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• A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. A new era is upon us… We have had our last chance. If we do not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.

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• There lies the Holy Grail.

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• I came through and I shall return.

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• You are remembered for the rules you break.

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• We are not retreating – we are advancing in another.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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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.

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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.

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• Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

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

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• 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.

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Douglas MacArthur (47)

Birth:	26th January, 1880
Death:	5th April, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	General

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Douglas MacArthur was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. He 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.

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