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:''I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that "old soldiers never die; they just fade away." And like the old soldier of that 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. Good bye.'' From his Farewell to Congress, April 19, 1951.
:''I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that "old soldiers never die; they just fade away." And like the old soldier of that 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. Good bye.'' From his Farewell to Congress, April 19, 1951.
==Quotes==
Quotes attributed<ref>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/douglas_macarthur.html</ref><ref>http://www.military-quotes.com/Macarthur.htm</ref><ref>Douglas MacArthur, ''General MacArthur: wisdom and visions'', complied by Colonel Edward T. Imparato (USAF Ret.)</ref> to MacArthur include:
* Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
* Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
* It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
* In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
* 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.
* In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.<ref>Sylvanus Thayer Award acceptance speech, 09-12-1952</ref>
* 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.
* Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
* Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
* 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.<ref>After flying over Japanese held territory to reach Australia, 1942-03-17</ref>
* ...the enduring fortitude, the patriotic selfabnegation, and the unsurpassed military genius of the American soldier of the World War will stand forth in undimmed luster; in his youth and strength, his love and loyalty, he gave all that mortality can give. He needs no eulogy from me or from any other man; he has written his own history, and written it in red on his enemy's breast. But when I think of his patience under adversity, of his courage under fire, and of his modesty in victory I am filled with an emotion I cannot express.<ref>Address to the annual reunion of MacArthur's Rainbow Division in Washington on July 14, 1935</ref>
* No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.<ref>http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/general+douglas+macarthur</ref>
* In war there is no substitute for victory. There are some who for varying reasons would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier wars.
* ...once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision.<ref>Address to Congress, Apr. 19, 1951</ref>
* We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
* 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.
* A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
* Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.<ref>William M Leary, ''Macarthur and the American Century: A Reader'' (2001)</ref>
* Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions — those institutions we proudly called the American way of life. <ref>Speech in Lansing, Michigan, May 15, 1951</ref>
* It [socialism] discourages development of moral forces which would preserve inviolate our representative form of government, answerable to the will of the electorate.<ref>Opening Centennial celebration, Seattle Wash, 11-13-1951</ref>
* Are we going to squander our limited resources to the point of our own inevitable exhaustion or adopt commonsense policies of frugality which will insure financial stability in our time and a worthwhile heritage in that of our progeny?
* Are we going to continue to permit the pressure of alien doctrines top strongly influence the orientation of foreign an domestic policy or regain trust in our own traditions, experience and free institutions, and the wisdom of our own people?
* In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness. The answer must be clear and unequivocal if we are to avoid the pitfalls toward which are heading with such certainly. In many respects it is not to be found in any dogma of political philosophy, but in those immutable precepts which underlie the [[Ten Commandments.]]
* These pressures have already caused us to depart sharply from the course so long held toward national strength and moral greatness. Our economic statute built under the incentive of free enterprise is imperiled by our drift through the back door of confiscatory taxation toward socialism.
* It is a singular habit in this country to raise high the military when war threatens, but to ignore security needs in the pleasanter times of peace.<ref>Cleveland OH, 09-06-1951</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=sfJEP29EXXMC&pg=PA45&dq=general+douglas+macarthur+quotes&ei=dX0pS9CKJ4zIyQTKpdymCw&cd=9#v=onepage&q=&f=false Douglas MacArthur, Edward T. Imparato (USAF Ret.), ''General MacArthur: wisdom and visions'', pp. 43-45]</ref>
* Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin, our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces?<ref>Cleveland OH, 09-06-1951</ref><ref>ibid. p. 125]</ref>
* The people have it in their hands to restore morality, wisdom and direction to of our foreign and domestic affairs and regain the religious base which in times past assured general integrity in public and private life.<ref>Opening, Centennial celebration, Seattle Wash, 11-13-1951</ref><ref>ibid p. 125</ref>
* ...The spiritual impulse is strong in many American hearts and constitutes a rugged bulwark in the defense of religious morality against the advance of any atheistic immorality.<ref>Salvation army, Waldorf-Astora hotel, New york, NY, 12-12-1951</ref><ref>ibid p. 127</ref>
* Our great strength rests in those high-minded Americans whose faith in God and love of country transcends all selfishness and self-serving instincts.<ref>ibid p. 127</ref>
*There are those who seek to convert us to a form of socialistic endeavour leading directly to the path of Communist slavery.<ref>ibid p. 130</ref>
* There can be no compromise with atheistic Communism - no half-way in the preservation of freedom and religion.<ref>Massachusetts legislature, Boston, 7-25-1951</ref><ref>ibid p. 128</ref>
* We all dream of of the day when human conduct will be governed by the Decalogue and the Sermon and the Mount.<ref>Veterans of the Rainbow (42nd) Infantry Div. WW1, Wash. DC. 7-14-1935</ref><ref>ibid p. 128</ref>
* There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
* History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed in to political and economic decline.<ref>America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations</ref>
* I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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