Douglas MacArthur Quotes

• Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

  Douglas MacArthur

• Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

  Douglas MacArthur

• My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

  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

• Life is a lively process of becoming.

  Douglas MacArthur

• 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

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

  Douglas MacArthur

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

  Douglas MacArthur

• In war there is no substitute for victory.

  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

• 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

• 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.

  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

• 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

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

  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

• 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

• 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

• Americans never quit.

  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.

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Douglas MacArthur (47)

Birth:	26th January, 1880
Death:	5th April, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	General

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Douglas MacArthur was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. He was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II.

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