Douglas MacArthur quotes Born: 01/26/1880 Died: 04/05/1964 Country: usa

• 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. (Douglas MacArthur) [state/fear/evil]
• Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die. (Douglas MacArthur)
• We are not retreating -- we are advancing in another direction. (Douglas MacArthur) [direction]
• No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation. (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. (Douglas MacArthur) [soldier/take/pride/soldier]
• A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. (Douglas MacArthur) [bad]
• 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. (Douglas MacArthur) [soldier/military/career/soldier]
• The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself. (Douglas MacArthur) [luck/luck]
• It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh. (Douglas MacArthur) [spirit]
• You are remembered for the rules you break. (Douglas MacArthur)
• Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. (Douglas MacArthur) [age/soul & body]
• Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. (Douglas MacArthur) [give/interest]
• Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. (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. (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. (Douglas MacArthur)
• It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. (Douglas MacArthur) [war/willpower]
• In war there is no substitute for victory. (Douglas MacArthur) [war]
• Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. (Douglas MacArthur)
• There is no substitute for victory. (Douglas MacArthur)
• 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. (Douglas MacArthur) [state/fear/evil]
• Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die. (Douglas MacArthur)
• We are not retreating -- we are advancing in another direction. (Douglas MacArthur) [direction]
• No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation. (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. (Douglas MacArthur) [soldier/take/pride/soldier]
• A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. (Douglas MacArthur) [bad]
• 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. (Douglas MacArthur) [soldier/military/career/soldier]
• The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself. (Douglas MacArthur) [luck/luck]
• It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh. (Douglas MacArthur) [spirit]
• You are remembered for the rules you break. (Douglas MacArthur)
• Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. (Douglas MacArthur) [age/soul & body]
• Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. (Douglas MacArthur) [give/interest]

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