After his arrival in Australia from the Philippines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEbwuehH35I (30 March 1942)
“I came out of Bataan and I shall return!”
Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964) U.S. Army general of the army, field marshal of the Army of the Philippines
While transferring trains at Terowie, South Australia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terowie regarding the Battle of Philippines (20 March 1942)
“I shall send people to urge them to return home.”
Dong Fuxiang (1839–1908) Chinese general
Familiar strangers: a history of Muslims in Northwest China, Jonathan Neaman Lipman, 2004, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 157, 0-295-97644-6, 2010-06-28 http://books.google.com/books?id=90CN0vtxdY0C&pg=PA157&dq=Fuxiang+said,+%22I+shall+send+people+to+urge+them&hl=en&ei=cceaTOXCKYT48Aa2xa1S&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=snippet&q=%22I%20shall%20send%20people%20to%20urge%20them%20to%20return%20home&f=false,
“And the last words I heard him say were
I shall return for you my love on Christmas Day…”
Dido (1971) English singer-songwriter
Christmas Day
Song lyrics, No Angel (1999)
“I shall not return to Constantinople until I have conquered Egypt!”
Ahmed Djemal (1872–1922) Ottoman general
Quoted in "On Secret Service East of Constantinople" - Page 77 - by Peter Hopkirk - History - 2001.
Quotess
“It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.”
Parmenides (-501–-470 BC) ancient Greek philosopher
Frag. B 5, quoted by Proclus, Commentary on the Parmenides, 708
“I am come to a tavern alone to eat a steak, after which I shall return to the office.”
Richard Steele (1672–1729) British politician
28 October 1707
Letters to His Wife (1707-1712)
“I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.”
Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964) U.S. Army general of the army, field marshal of the Army of the Philippines
On landing in Leyte, Philippines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv1PF0tAE1s (20 October 1944)
Tao Yuanming (365–427) Chinese poet
Second of three poems ("Three Dirges") written by Tao Yuanming in 427, the same year he died at the age of 63, and often read as poems written for his own funeral.
John Minford and Joseph S. M. Lau (eds.), Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations (2000), p. 513
Context: In former days I wanted wine to drink;
The wine this morning fills the cup in vain.
I see the spring mead with its floating foam,
And wonder when to taste of it again.
The feast before me lavishly is spread,
My relatives and friends beside me cry.
I wish to speak but lips can shape no voice,
I wish to see but light has left my eye.
I slept of old within the lofty hall,
Amidst wild weeds to rest I now descend.
When once I pass beyond the city gate
I shall return to darkness without end.
Milutin Bojić (1892–1917) Serbian playwright and poet (1892-1917)
Attributed to Milutin Bojić in: Andrej Mitrović (2007) Serbia's Great War, 1914-1918. p. 149
