Douglas MacArthur Quotes

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

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

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

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

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Douglas MacArthur

Americans never quit.

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

There is no substitute for victory.

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

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

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

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

Douglas MacArthur