Quote by Major General Enoch Crowder

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of…

— William Manchester

“No one’s exploits in the division had glowed more incandescently than those of Douglas MacArthur. He was that rarity, a courageous exhibitionist, a fearless…

— Joseph E. Persico

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

— William Manchester

“At one point in life, every son would look back at his father and think. I am not just like him, I am him.”

— Midhun Jackson

“He had taught me how to be a man when my real father proved not to be much of one himself and incapable of…

— Dean Koontz

“Yet whenever he thought of himself as a dull, deluded opportunist, compared with other people, he always remembered the intensity of his own feelings…

— John P. Marquand

“His was a lonely, unorthodox conviction that war was man's ultimate failure.”

— Sharon Kay Penman

“We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world on his shoulders.”

— Orson Scott Card

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown

“I could tell immediately that he was a typical Army Rear Echelon puke unfit-for-duty-asshole junior officer with delusions of grandeur.”

— Greg McPartlin

“All extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe