Douglas MacArthur Quotes

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

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away

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

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

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

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.

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.

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.

Americans never quit.

I realize that advice is worth what it costs—that is, nothing.

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.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

By profession I am a Soldier & take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father.

There is no security. Only opportunity.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory

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.