Macarthur Quotes

General George Patton, General Douglas MacArthur are spinning in their grave at the stupidity of what we're doing in the Middle East.

— Donald Trump

It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective…

— William Manchester

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was…

— Jared Diamond

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing…

— William Manchester

Think of Iraq as "East Korea," because it was a shoot the cuffs war for the edification of Kim Jong Il to…

— Dennis Miller

With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of…

— Jared Diamond

I'm a big fan of General Douglas MacArthur and General George Patton.We have a few generals that have been so incredible to…

— Donald Trump

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

— Douglas MacArthur

If you look at ISIS, General MacArthur, and General Patton, they're spinning in their graves.

— Donald Trump

Just go to [Hillary Clinton] website. She tells you how to fight ISIS on her website. I don't think General Douglas MacArthur…

— Donald Trump

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them.

— William Manchester

Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the…

— Helen Thomas

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. Like them, he was slandered…

— William Manchester

Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what…

— Haruki Murakami

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

— David Simon

I think we're being laughed at all over the world. I think that if you look at our military, we can't beat…

— Donald Trump

They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have…

— William Manchester

This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he…

— Douglas MacArthur

It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the…

— William Manchester

We started an organization that's the only sub-organization of the MacArthur Foundation and we are called the Macarturos. Usually when I win…

— Sandra Cisneros

General MacArthur told me, "You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself."

— John Wayne

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the…

— William Manchester

One of the things that I've learned, and I think we've all learned, is that we are not going to get the…

— Barack Obama

“He was a thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of me and…

— William Manchester

In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or…

— Robert M. Gates