71 ordspråk av General Douglas MacArthur

US  General Douglas MacArthur

General Douglas MacArthur föddes den 26 januari 1880 och dog den 5 april 1964 - who commanded the Southwest Pacific Theatre in World War II.
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 I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

 I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

 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.

 I realize that advice is worth what it costs -- that is, nothing.

 I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

 I shall return.

 I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

 I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

 If you must fire do a good job-a few casualties become martyrs, a large number an object lesson. ...When a mob starts to move keep it on the run. ...Use a bayonet to encourage its retreat. If they are running, a few good wounds in the buttocks will encourage them. If they resist, they must be killed.

 In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

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

 In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

 In war, you win or lose, live or die-and the difference is just an eyelash.

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

 It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.


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