Quotes by Douglas MacArthur

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.

— Douglas MacArthur

Courage

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

Wisdom

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.

— Douglas MacArthur

Success

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

— Douglas MacArthur

Wisdom

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

— Douglas MacArthur

Wisdom

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.

— Douglas MacArthur

Courage

There is no substitute for victory.

— Douglas MacArthur

Wisdom

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

— Douglas MacArthur

Wisdom

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

— Douglas MacArthur

Wisdom

Life is a lively process of becoming.

— Douglas MacArthur

Life

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?

— Douglas MacArthur

Life

You are remembered for the rules you break.

— Douglas MacArthur

Wisdom

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.

— Douglas MacArthur

Success

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

Life

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

— Douglas MacArthur

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Douglas MacArthur

Wisdom

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

— Douglas MacArthur

Wisdom

Americans never quit.

— Douglas MacArthur

Wisdom

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

— Douglas MacArthur

Wisdom

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.

— Douglas MacArthur

Courage

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

— Douglas MacArthur

Wisdom

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

— Douglas MacArthur

Life

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

— Douglas MacArthur

Life