Douglas MacArthur Quotes

"Americans never quit."

"Life is a lively process of becoming."

"In war there is no substitute for victory."

"Wars are caused by unprotected wealth."

"Never give an order that can't be obeyed."

"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."

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

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

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

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."

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

"But in the evening of my memory, always I come back to West Point."

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

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

"I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country."

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

"However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind."

"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 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."

"And like the old soldier in that 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 sight to see that duty."

"Duty, Honor, Country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn."

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Wisdom-of-the-Wise.com