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You are remembered for the rules you break.
Written by Douglas MacArthur
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
Written by 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.
Written by Douglas MacArthur
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Written by 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.
Written by 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?
Written by 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.
Written by Douglas MacArthur
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
Written by Douglas MacArthur
My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
Written by Douglas MacArthur
Americans never quit.
Written by Douglas MacArthur
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
Written by 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.
Written by Douglas MacArthur
In war there is no substitute for victory.
Written by Douglas MacArthur
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Written by 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.
Written by 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.
Written by Douglas MacArthur
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.
Written by Douglas MacArthur
Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
Written by Douglas MacArthur
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Written by 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.
Written by Douglas MacArthur
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
Written by 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.
Written by Douglas MacArthur
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Written by Douglas MacArthur
Life is a lively process of becoming.
Written by Douglas MacArthur
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.
Written by 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.
Written by 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.
Written by 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.
Written by 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.
Written by Douglas MacArthur
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
Written by Douglas MacArthur

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