Douglas MacArthur Quotes

“But 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. In war, there can be no substitute for victory.”
― Arthur Herman, Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior

“You are only remembered and become famous because of your mistakes. —DOUGLAS MACARTHUR”
― Arthur Herman, Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior

“Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability is in the opponent. —SUN TZU, THE ART OF WAR”
― Arthur Herman, Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior

“Once again Willoughby had let MacArthur down, as he had many times in the past. Yet this time MacArthur’s skill in improvisation, and his confidence that he would eventually come out on top no matter what the enemy did, would be put to the supreme test—even more so than in the Philippines in December 1941. It would take every ounce of willpower and stamina that the seventy-year-old supreme commander had, to turn around what was unfolding as a major disaster on the Korean peninsula.”
― Arthur Herman, Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior

“If anything, the destruction there was even more overwhelming and appalling. “Between seventy and eighty percent of the buildings had been destroyed, burned, bombed,” Egeberg remembered years later. Amid the ruins they spotted large water-tank affairs, also smashed and blackened. When Egeberg asked what they were, a foreign service officer said they’d been built and filled with water so that Tokyo residents could jump in them during firebombing raids. They hadn’t worked, the officer said. The people in them had simply been boiled to death in the intense heat.55”
― Arthur Herman, Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior