Talk:Douglas MacArthur

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• My first memory was of the sound of bugles.

• This is where I came from, and I thank a merciful God that I am able to return.
  • Upon returning to his old school, T.M.I.-Episcopal in San Antonio

• You only grow old by deserting your ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, giving up wrinkles the soul.

• You are remembered for the rules you break.
  • Variant: we are known for the rules we break not the rules we follow.

• Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

• commenting retrospectively on General Eisenhower, his Chief of Staff in the Philippines prior to WWII- "He was the best clerk I ever had."

• after hearing of the appalling high casualties on the European front compared to his SW Pacific front " Good commanders don't turn in heavy casualties"

• "Never get involved in a land war in Asia."

Misattributed

• We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. (recte: Maj. Gen. Oliver Prince Smith)

"Anyone wanting to commit American ground forces to the mainland of Asia should have his head examined."

Did he say it? Fxm12 03:55, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Indeed he did -- http://books.google.com/books?id=KS-6XrdalGkC&pg=PA102&lpg=PA102#v=onepage&q&f=false

• And James W. Douglass would never misquote anyone, right?