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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4577/">Quotes by <em>Macarthur, Douglas</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 April 5, 1964) was an American military leader who served in World War II. He helped rebuild Japan after the war and played a key role in limiting the Communist takeover of Korea with his daring Inchon landing. A controversial figure, he was dismissed by President Truman but returned to the largest tickertape parade ever. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."

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"By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven."

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"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation."

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"A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him."

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"Like the old soldier of the 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. Goodbye."

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"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."

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