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==Quotes==
==Quotes==
MacArthur was usually literate and eloquent, with his faith, character, experience and wisdom helping to make his speeches among the most stirring of the twentieth century. MacArthur was also uncommonly (for a general) interested and vocal about domestic policies, as seen in his speeches, which were mostly all were written by him.
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:
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:
* 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>
* 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>
* 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>
* 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>
* There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
* There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
* Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
* Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
* We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
* We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
* The United States is a pre-eminently Christian and conservative nation. It is far less militaristic than most nations. It is not especially open to the charge of imperialism. Yet one would fancy that Americans were the most brutally blood-thirsty people in the world to judge by the frantic efforts that are being made to disarm them both physically and morally...The effect of all this unabashed and unsound propaganda is not so much to convert America to a holy horror of war as it is to confuse the public mind and lead to muddled thinking in international affairs.<ref>Address to the annual reunion of MacArthur's Rainbow Division in Washington on July 14, 1935</ref>
* In the last 3,400 years only 268 -- less than 1 in 13 -- have been free from wars.
* 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 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.
* 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.
* ...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>
* ...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>