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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
— Douglas MacArthur
In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
— Douglas MacArthur
Preparedness is the key to success and victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
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.
— Douglas MacArthur
Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.
— Douglas MacArthur
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
— Douglas MacArthur
Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.
— Douglas MacArthur
If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
— Douglas MacArthur
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
— Douglas MacArthur
If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
— Douglas MacArthur
Americans never quit.
— Douglas MacArthur
Life is a lively process of becoming.
— Douglas MacArthur
Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
— Douglas MacArthur
I am of Virginia and all my professional life I have studied of Lee and Jackson
— Douglas MacArthur
I realize that advice is worth what it coststhat is, nothing. — Douglas MacArthur
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
— Douglas MacArthur
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
— Douglas MacArthur
I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
— Douglas MacArthur
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!
— Douglas MacArthur
In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
— Douglas MacArthur
Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
— Douglas MacArthur
The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
— Douglas MacArthur
I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
— Douglas MacArthur
There is no security. Only opportunity.
— Douglas MacArthur
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.
— Douglas MacArthur
Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
— Douglas MacArthur
Roosevelt is dead: a man who would never tell the truth when a lie would serve him just as well.
— Douglas MacArthur
No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
— Douglas MacArthur
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.
— Douglas MacArthur
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.
— Douglas MacArthur
I came through and I shall return.
— Douglas MacArthur
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
— Douglas MacArthur
Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
— Douglas MacArthur
The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.
— Douglas MacArthur
I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
— Douglas MacArthur
In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.
— Douglas MacArthur
That democracy works and will always work, because the people are allowed to think, to talk, and keep their minds free, open, and supple.
— Douglas MacArthur
The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
— Douglas MacArthur
I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.
— Douglas MacArthur
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
— Douglas MacArthur
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. — Douglas MacArthur
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.
— Douglas MacArthur
The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
— Douglas MacArthur
Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.
— Douglas MacArthur
In war there is no substitute for victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
No army has ever done so much with so little.
— Douglas MacArthur
I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
— Douglas MacArthur
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
— Douglas MacArthur
My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.
— Douglas MacArthur
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
— Douglas MacArthur
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction
— Douglas MacArthur
Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
— Douglas MacArthur
I came out of Bataan and I shall return!
— Douglas MacArthur
There is no substitute for victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
— Douglas MacArthur
The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
— Douglas MacArthur
Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
— Douglas MacArthur
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
— Douglas MacArthur
Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
— Douglas MacArthur
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.
— Douglas MacArthur
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
— Douglas MacArthur
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.
— Douglas MacArthur
To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.
— Douglas MacArthur
I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
— Douglas MacArthur
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.
— Douglas MacArthur
Security lies in our ability to produce.
— Douglas MacArthur
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.
— Douglas MacArthur
Never ask age of a woman.
— Douglas MacArthur
Beware not the enemy from 'without' but the enemy from 'within'.
— Douglas MacArthur
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
— Douglas MacArthur
You are remembered for the rules you break.
— Douglas MacArthur
You don't win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a bitch die for his
— Douglas MacArthur
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
— Douglas MacArthur
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.
— Douglas MacArthur
![Douglas Macarthur Quotes By William Manchester: His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/douglas-macarthur-quotes-by-william-manchester-315945.jpg "Douglas Macarthur Quotes By William Manchester: His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln")
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them.
— William Manchester
The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
— Douglas MacArthur
Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
— Douglas MacArthur
My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
— Douglas MacArthur
Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
— Douglas MacArthur
There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
— Douglas MacArthur
It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.
— Douglas MacArthur
A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
— Douglas MacArthur
The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
— Douglas MacArthur
Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
— Douglas MacArthur
By profession I am a Soldier & take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father.
— Douglas MacArthur
I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!
— Douglas MacArthur
Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
— Douglas MacArthur
Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
— Douglas MacArthur
Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
— Douglas MacArthur
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.
— Douglas MacArthur
Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
— Douglas MacArthur
Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.
— Douglas MacArthur
Mr. President. Douglas MacArthur said every military disaster can be explained in two words: 'Too late.
— Tom Clancy
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.
— Douglas MacArthur
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
— Douglas MacArthur