Words matter. These are the best Douglas MacArthur Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
You are remembered for the rules you break.
Americans never quit.
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.
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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.
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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.
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
In war there is no substitute for victory.
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
There is no substitute for victory.
Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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.
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.
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.
I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
There is no substitute for victory.
In war there is no substitute for victory.
In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.
I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
You are remembered for the rules you break.
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.
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
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.
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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.
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.
We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
