Truman Macarthur Quotes & Sayings

Today is Sunday
It will be Sunday forever
Black birds fly over
In this one instance
May we never recover
From this one new something
We are just starting to discover — Lourd Ernest H. De Veyra

Whether the Eisenhower administration has underestimated the American people's interest in space exploration or Truman never full appreciated MacArthur, the Soviet Union's Sputnik program has created a public spectacle that even Disney and von Braun might envy. — Ken Hollings

Having to face him at a competency hearing is like getting to hell and finding out that the only food available is raw liver-insult added to injury. — Jodi Picoult

We both gaze down at my swollen tummy for a while. I still can't quite get my head round the fact that there's a baby inside my body. Which has got to come out ... somehow.
OK, let's not go there. There's still time for them to invent something. — Sophie Kinsella

But as long as you know your constellations, you're never lost. — Morgan Matson

O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let us part! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won. — Helen Thomas

She was my person. She was it for me. Always. — Jay McLean

Where there is nothing, absolutely anything is possible. — Augusten Burroughs

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan. — Honore De Balzac

The clear suggestion is that there ought not to be civilian control of the military. What have callow noncombatants giving brisk orders to grizzled soldiers? How could Lincoln have fired the slavery-loving Gen. George B. McClellan, or Truman dismissed the glorious Douglas MacArthur? — Christopher Hitchens

If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli. — Dominic Monaghan

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration. — Timothy Leary

I fired MacArthur because he wouldn't respect the authority of the president. I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was. — Harry Truman