Douglas MacArthur
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.Collection: Great
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.Collection: Veterans
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.Collection: Veterans
I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.Collection: Death
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.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: War
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.Collection: Fear
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.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Patriotism
Americans never quit.Collection: Patriotism
There is no substitute for victory.Collection: Success
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.Collection: Failure
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.Collection: War
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.Collection: Fear
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.Collection: War
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.Collection: War
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.Collection: War
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.Collection: Best
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.Collection: History
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.Collection: War
In war there is no substitute for victory.Collection: War
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.Collection: Faith
Life is a lively process of becoming.Collection: Life
You are remembered for the rules you break.
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
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.
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.
My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
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?
I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.Collection: Inspirational
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.Collection: Peace
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. Whatever your years, there is in every being's heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.Collection: Giving Up
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.Collection: Spiritual
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.Collection: Military
Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.Collection: Men
Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.Collection: Today
Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions - those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.Collection: War
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.Collection: Inspirational
Preparedness is the key to success and victory.Collection: Keys
Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.Collection: Attitude
For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.Collection: Victory
By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder - infinitely prouder - to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven.Collection: Life
The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!Collection: Enemy