Quotes from Douglas MacArthur

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

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.

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.

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.

Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage, so long are you young.

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

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

Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.

War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.

I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.

It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!

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.

I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.

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

You are remembered for the rules you break.

Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.