Quotes from Douglas MacArthur

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

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

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.

Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.

Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

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.

The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.

The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.

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.