Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthurwas 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. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines Campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur, Jr., the first father and son to be awarded the medal. He was one of only five men ever to...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth26 January 1880
CityLittle Rock, AR
CountryUnited States of America
To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.
It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
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.
However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
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.
The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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.