Douglas MacArthur – Quotes Crazy

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, Ive 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. Its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. – Douglas MacArthur

Ive looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes. – Douglas MacArthur

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

In war there is no substitute for victory. – Douglas MacArthur

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

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

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

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

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. – 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

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

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

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

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

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. – 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

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

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. – Douglas MacArthur