Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964) was a US military officer. He was General of the Army for the United States, as well as a field marshal to the Philippine Army.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, and old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.

- speech to Congress after having been relieved of duty by President Truman, April 19, 1951

• I shall return.

- after leaving the Philippines, March 1942

• It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

- speech, Republican National Convention, 1952

Helen Keller