A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
- Douglas MacArthur Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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?
- Douglas MacArthur Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
- Douglas MacArthur Quote

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 Quote

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
- Douglas MacArthur Quote

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.
- Douglas MacArthur Quote

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
- Douglas MacArthur Quote

There is no substitute for victory.
- Douglas MacArthur Quote

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 Quote

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
- Douglas MacArthur Quote