Quotes from 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.

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.

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.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

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?

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.

Last, but by no means least, courage -- moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle -- the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.

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

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. 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 by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

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.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

There is no security on earth there is only opportunity.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

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

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction

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.

The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any treat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

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

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.