Quotes by Douglas MacArthur

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

“This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our e...”

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

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

“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 g...”

“I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.”

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

“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.”

“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”

“I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Americans never quit.”

“A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.”

“Life is a lively process of becoming.”

“There is no substitute for victory.”