Quotes by Douglas MacArthur

“Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.”

“You are remembered for the rules you break.”

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

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

“Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.”

“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.”

“There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.”

“Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.”

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

“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.”

“In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.”

“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.”

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

“In war there is no substitute for victory.”

“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 ince...”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I came out of Bataan and I shall return!”

“I said, to the people of the Philippines whence I came, I shall return. Tonight, I repeat those words: I shall return!”