Douglas MacArthur Quotes

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

There is no substitute for victory.

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber so long as it receives messages of beauty hope cheer and courage so long are you young.

Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Americans never quit.

Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.