Douglas MacArthur Quotes

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

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

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Preparedness is the key to success and victory.

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.

Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.

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

Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.

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

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.

Americans never quit.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.

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

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

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

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!

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

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

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

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

There is no security. Only opportunity.

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.

Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.

Roosevelt is dead: a man who would never tell the truth when a lie would serve him just as well.

No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.

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.

I came through and I shall return.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.

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

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.

That democracy works and will always work, because the people are allowed to think, to talk, and keep their minds free, open, and supple.

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

Security lies in our ability to produce.

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.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.

Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.

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

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

You are remembered for the rules you break.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

There is no substitute for victory.

No army has ever done so much with so little.

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

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

By profession I am a Soldier & take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father.

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

It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.

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

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

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

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

Never ask age of a woman.

Beware not the enemy from 'without' but the enemy from 'within'.

You don't win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a bitch die for his

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.

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

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on

The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.

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

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

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.

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.

I came out of Bataan and I shall return!

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

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

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction

My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

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

Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.

A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.

Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of
any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

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

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

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

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

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

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.

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

Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.

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