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Douglas MacArthur Quotes about Home

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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.

The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.

Douglas MacArthur
Home, House, Chickens
Comment to John F Kennedy on the presidential crisis. Kennedy enjoyed the remark and often quoted it. Quoted in Theodore C Sorensen Kennedy (1965).

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

Douglas MacArthur
Peace, War, Home
Douglas MacArthur's address to the Annual Stockholders Sperry Rand Corporation in New York (July 30, 1957) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 206), June 14, 2000.

I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.

Douglas MacArthur
War, Home, Humility
Douglas MacArthur's farewell address to a Joint Session of Congress, www.americanrhetoric.com. April 19, 1951.

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