Douglas MacArthur Quotes

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.

Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.

I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.

Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed

WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.

The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.

In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.

Never ask age of a woman.

Security lies in our ability to produce.

We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.

I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.

The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.

The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.

I came through and I shall return.

In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.

I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

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

In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.

I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.

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

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.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

No army has ever done so much with so little.

The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.

A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.

There is no security. Only opportunity.

I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!

It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

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

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.

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.

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.

From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea - written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo - "There is no substitute for victory!"

Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.

If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.

I am of Virginia and all my professional life I have studied of Lee and Jackson

The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.

I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.

The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.