Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
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Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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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.
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.
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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.
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I said, to the people of the Philippines whence I came, I shall return. Tonight, I repeat those words: I shall return!
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In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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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.
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Americans never quit.
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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.
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There is no substitute for victory.
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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.
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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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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.
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A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
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The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea … are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them.
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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.
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I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!