Quotes by Douglas MacArthur

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

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

"Americans never quit."

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

"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."

"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."

"You are remembered for the rules you break."

"Life is a lively process of becoming."

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

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

"There is no substitute for victory."

"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."

"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."

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

"In war there is no substitute for victory."

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

"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."

"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?"

"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."

"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."