Douglas MacArthur Quotes

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

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!

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

I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

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. While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our political leaders almost a greater fear of peace than is their fear of war.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid of dying.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.