Douglas MacArthur Famous Quotes
In war there is no substitute for victory.
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
"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."
"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 by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul."
There is no security on earth there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthur Quotations
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
George Bernard Shaw
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
Robert Graves
Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life
Henry Havelock Ellis
"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."
George Santayana
"Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - it shall never be again"
Rudyard Kipling
"There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."
Colette
"The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind He stumbles through existence with his head-light on behind. - from The Lightning-Bug"
Eugene F Ware
The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
Kahlil Gibran
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe