Douglas MacArthur Quotes

I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.

- Douglas MacArthur 

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

- Douglas MacArthur 

There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

- Douglas MacArthur 

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

 

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

- Douglas MacArthur

 

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

- Douglas MacArthur

 

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

- Douglas MacArthur

 

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.

- Douglas MacArthur

 

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

- Douglas MacArthur

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

- Douglas MacArthur  

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

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
                                                                                                                                 - 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 



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.
                                                                                                                                 - 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 

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 

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

 

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.

- 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

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

- Douglas MacArthur