Famous quotes containing the words general, douglas and/or macarthur:
“They make a great ado nowadays about hard times; but I think that ... this general failure, both private and public, is rather occasion for rejoicing, as reminding us whom we have at the helm,—that justice is always done. If our merchants did not most of them fail, and the banks too, my faith in the old laws of the world would be staggered.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.”
—Norman Douglas (1868–1952)
“We have had our last chance. If we do not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.”
—Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)