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Douglas Macarthur Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“I said, to the people of the Philippines whence I came, I shall return. Tonight, I repeat those words: I shall return!”
— Douglas Macarthur, General Douglas MacArthur "I Shall Return"
“The days of the frontal attack are over. Modern infantry weapons are too deadly, and frontal assault is only for mediocre commanders. Good commanders do not turn in heavy losses.”
— Douglas Macarthur, Reminiscences By Douglas Macarthur, General of the Army- Written in His Own Hand, and Finished Only Weeks Before His Death - With Sections of Black & White Photos - Hardcover First Edition 1964
Tagged: Military, Infantry, Frontal Assault
“We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back.”
— Douglas Macarthur
Tagged: Defeat, Triumph, World War II
“We have had our last chance. If we do not now devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.”
— Douglas Macarthur
Tagged: World War II, Armageddon, Nuclear War
“Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain death—the seas bear only commerce men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world is quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed.”
— Douglas Macarthur
Tagged: Peace, Armistice, Surrender, World War II, Death, Holy Mission
“In war there is no substitute for victory.”
— Douglas Macarthur
Tagged: War, victory, Defeat
“The Communist threat is a global one. Its successful advance in one sector threatens the destruction of every other sector. You cannot appease or otherwise surrender to communism in Asia without simultaneously undermining our efforts to halt its advance in Europe.”
— Douglas Macarthur
Tagged: Communism, Asia, Europe
“What the peoples strive for is the opportunity for a little more food in their stomachs, a little better clothing on their backs, a little firmer roof over their heads, and the realization of the normal nationalist urge for political freedom.”
— Douglas Macarthur
Tagged: People, Populism, Opportunity, Hunger, clothing, Shelter, Nationalism
“A new era is upon us. Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.”
— Douglas Macarthur
Tagged: New Era, victory, Civiilization, War, Peace
“There are many who have lost faith in this early American ideal and believe in a form of socialistic, totalitarian rule, a sort of big brother deity to run our lives for us. They no longer believe that free men can successfully manage their own affairs. Their thesis is that a handful of men, centered in government, largely bureaucratic not elected, can utilize the proceeds of our toil and labor to greater advantage than those who create it. Nowhere in the history of the human race is there justification for this reckless faith in political power. It is the oldest, most reactionary of all forms of social organization.”
— Douglas Macarthur, Reminiscences By Douglas Macarthur, General of the Army- Written in His Own Hand, and Finished Only Weeks Before His Death - With Sections of Black & White Photos - Hardcover First Edition 1964
Tagged: Socialism, Communism, Totalitarianism, Reactionary, Bureaucracy, Big Government
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